Post #286971 by freddiefreelance on Tue, Feb 20, 2007 1:18 PM

On 2007-02-20 12:21, little lost tiki wrote:
Favorite Classic Cartoon?
"COBWEB HOTEL"
It's an old Max Fleischer one! Pretty grim and scary!
As for shows....
Herculoids
Atom Ant
Hair Bear Bunch
and I hated Jabberjaw and Speed Buggy-worse than Muppet Babies!
Great topic by the way! :)

I have "Cobweb Hotel" on VHS on one of those "8 Hours of Klassic Kartoons" collections.

I love all of those old Fleischer Studios 'toons, my Gran'Daughter makes me play the Betty Boop version of "Cinderella" over & over & over, and I have a 4 disk Popeye collection that includes some of the greatest cartoons of the '30s: "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor," "Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves," & "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp." Jack Mercer's rambling, mumbling delivery as Popeye, the wiggly animation style, the surreal storylines, the use of carved clay backgrounds/foregrounds & rotoscoping, the sly humor, all make me wish the Fleischers hadn't been forced to imitate Disney's style & been handcuffed in their story writing by the Hayes Code. Gulliver's Travels, Mr. Bug Goes to Town, and the Superman shorts were all good, just not as cool or as individualistic as the older material.

Also great for surreal cartoon comedy are the original Felix the Cat silents & the late '90s "Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat" TV series.

Tons of '50s-'60s Anime: "Kimba,""Speed Racer," "Gigantor,""Astro Boy," "Alakazam."

Does anyone else remember "Colonel Bleep"? or "Tom Terrific"?