Synopsis
Animated-live action short. An artist is quietly painting landscapes of the countryside when he wanders into an abandoned house which Dinky tries to fool him into thinking it's haunted.
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Just Spooks
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USA
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13 Sep 1925
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Another effortlessly surreal early animation/live action hybrid. At times this looks like someone at MTV in 1992 took some public domain silent comedy and overlaid animation effects on top of it, but it came out whole cloth in 1925.
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The live-action/cartoon hybridization here is admirable and makes for a few fun gags, but this one's pretty forgettable -- probably owing in some part to Dinky Doodle being a lackluster character (although the live-action actor is in it much more than he). Frankly, the cow was my favorite part, and she got totally shifted.
Watched as part of Tommy Stathes' Halloween Haunts DVD/Blu-ray
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The artist must dare to cross the threshold the great unwashed retreat from. There are dark recesses of the mind that have driven even the stalwart down the river Styx or up the asylum walls. Cartoonist Walter (Lantz) summons up the courage to trek the thin line between illusory realms of well-armed Dinkey Doodle and Weakheart the Dog sounding off then keeling over in his general direction, and reality. Stepping further still into the inky underworld, he gazes into the heart of the abyss. Ring-a-round-the-roseying ghosts and personal bubble-violating skeletons and pesky mosquitos and things prove the abyss gazes likewise.
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Goddamn. Watching cartoons from the first 25 years of the 20th century makes you realized how homogenized and safe they got once Disney and Warner Brothers became the only games in town.
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Fucking nutty as shit, some shit I could see on golden age youtube or something and honestly it's ahead of its time aside from the blackface skeletons I mean how does that even make sense
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“Don’t shoot; I don’t have life insurance!”
Said 98 years ago and somehow still relatable. :(
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