Bimbo, who gets his comeuppance for stealing chickens, encounters various talking gravestones with faces, many farm animals, a walking barn, and plenty of spooks and ghosts. It is already over 85 years old and has bimbo roam around at a cemetery which may not be a good idea at all as all kinds of inanimate objects start to. He runs away from a policeman and enters a haunted cemetery. The line between hokey and too scaryunpolished old music performed entirely. The original song was used again as the title track to the 1938 bing crosby movie sing you sinners first. Mad, dark and surreal stuff one of the greatest cartoons of all time. This time hes playing the violin, presenting his reading of the fifth hungarian dance by johannes brahms, traumerei by robert schumann which makes him cry and, as an encore, the finale. Learn more about this item loading ready to ship in. Bimbo is seen late at night, trying to steal a chicken. For the 1938 musical comedy film, see sing you sinners film. We watch a thief probably bimbo, but his appearance in the early talkartoons is so inconsistent, one cant be sure. Such as 1941, love n dancing, swing kids hellzapoppin, sprit moves, groovie movie, swing you sinners, junior prom, carnival rock, untamed youth, cabin in the sky, swingers etcetera.
With the new contract with paramount pictures, and without the burden of red seal pictures and alfred weiss, max. Also of note is van beuren studios own knockoff of the film, panicky pup. In 1930 it was used in the film honey starring lillian roth. Throughout the rest of the film bimbo is threatened and. It is based on the 1930 play penny arcade by marie baumer. The cartoon is notable for its surreal, dark and sometimes even abstract. Handmade description swing, you sinners 1930s character heads 11x14 inches. Swing you sinners max fleischer 1930s cartoons, vintage cartoons. But if you look a little deeper, theres something very interesting going on in this cartoon. Filmmaker, photographer and cartoonist for hire nico colaleo created this affectionate homage to 1930s cartoon super stars, titled swing you sinners, and posted it on his website. Jolly little elves was made in twocolor technicolor, as were the subsequent lantz cartune classics released during 1934 and 1935. Talkartoons is a series of 42 animated cartoons produced by the fleischer studios and distributed by paramount pictures between 1929 and 1932. Many have interpreted the cartoon as a metaphor for the raciallymotivated lynch mobs from the time, due to it being about a darkcolored character being menaced by white ghosts for stealing a chicken.
Sing you sinners is a 1938 american musical comedy film directed by wesley ruggles and starring bing crosby, fred macmurray, ellen drew, and donald oconnor. Swing, you sinners this disc is a 12 33 rpm recording of the soundtrack to a fleischman cartoon called swing, you sinners. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. People have watched it in recent times because this, apparently, was cited as one of the inspirations for cuphead particularly with one of the poses done by the flower boss, cagney carnation. Fiddling around 1930 the internet animation database. This modern and vintage swing dance movies, films page lists video clips, trailers and dvds, with swing or related dance scenes. The cartoon is notable for its surreal, dark and sometimes even abstract content. Originally oneshot cartoons, the series evolved into a platform for bimbo and betty boop talkartoons animated theatrical cartoon series fleischer studios 1929 1932. Like so many cartoons, a thencurrent aspect of pop culture plays an integral part of swing you sinners. Cartoon, musical, black comedy, supernatural horror, surrealism. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the akas submission guide.
Both cagney and blondell reprised the roles they played in the original broadway production. The beebes are a family youll love, and with elizabeth patterson and ellen drew completing the cast this is top notch entertainment all the way. A series of theatrical cartoons exploiting the new technology of sound. Swing you sinners is one of a series of 42 animated cartoons talkartoons produced by the fleischer studios and distributed by paramount pictures between 1929 and 1932. The first fulllength walter lantz cartoon in color. A few weeks away from his birthday,i started looking for a movie i could watch with my dad on the day. Fred macmurray, and a young 12 year old donald oconnor, is one of the best couple of minutes ever committed to film. Or, as in modern blockbusters starring cgi trees, 20. Throughout the rest of the film bimbo is threatened and chased by. Featuring overt profanity, van halen was going all out on this track, showing that they could rock as hard as the new wave of british heavy metal. Sing, you sinners is a popular song with music by w. Surprisingly, the 1930 lantz short not so quiet was not released on the dvd edition of. Namely, the hit foxtrot entitled sing you sinners music, w. Throughout the rest of the film bimbo is threatened and chased by them until he falls in hell where a huge skull devours him, ending the cartoon.
At first glance, the shindig is just another allsinging, alldancing mickey mouse cartoon, featuring mickey and the gang playing music in a barn and dancing up a storm. Max fleischer, the psychedelic animator jewish currents. In a shoutout to this cartoon, once you beat the games final boss, the devil, you get an achievement named swing you sinner troubled production. Various ghosts and monsters tell him that he will be punished for his sin. The cartoon was animated by a complete new staff whod never. No videos, backdrops or posters have been added to swing you sinners status released original language english. Further, some elements of the film, such as oswalds thoughts being transcribed onscreen, are strongly reminiscent of lantz productions from 1929 as opposed to. Initially the film was to be titled the unholy beebes and then harmony for three before finishing with sing you sinners. Hes the sole performer in his fourth concert cartoon after the opry house, mickeys follies and the jazz fool, all from 1929. The thief tries to steal a chicken, but runs into a cop. A fan of the road to and flubber films, my dad gave some less than subtle mentions about being keen on seeing bing and fred macmurray teamup,which led to us hearing the sinners sing. One example of fleischers trippery was the eightminutelong swing you sinners in 1930 see below involving a dog protagonist menaced by cemetery headstones that come to life and sing in sinister tones. To his fear he finds out that the place is haunted, complete with ghosts and monsters.
The short begins with bimbo making a nighttime raid on a henhouse, attempting to steal one of the chickens. Death becomes him swing you sinners is eight minutes long and contains more imagination than features ten times its length. Price new from used from audio cd, november 8, 2005. I recently obtained this production reel from an elderly gentleman. Although bing crosby made a 1938 paramount musical called sing you sinners, this did not include the title song, according to the imdb. If you have a copy with original opening and closing titles, please. It looks like we dont have any akas for this title yet. Danger in the rearview mirror theres trouble in the wind badness bringing up the rear the menaces loose again she looks so fuckin good so sexy and so frail something got the bite on me im goin straight to hell and now were wasting time same old.