Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
- Length: 6:18
- Rating Average: 4.71 from 83 people
- View Count: 27243' favoriteCount='279
- Author: Tasutpen
Tags: Animated Bimbo Brothers Cinema Fleischer
With the release of Richard Linklatter's feature-length cartoon version of a Philip K. Dick novel, I thought it a good opportunity to turn, however briefly, to what is still, to me, the gold standard in animated cinema. People who apply the term 'Surreal' to films produced in the early 30s by Max and Dave Fleischer are really missing the point. Indeed there are elements that correspond to that swell in the tidepool of European formalism, but to say that it's a defining characteristic (or even an important one) is to, in the same breath, dismiss everything that made their work so unique. As is plain in even a gem as dark as their 1931 film Bimbo's Initiation, the Fleischers were not just following the aesthetic footprints of Old World models, they were running on the freedom granted them by the knowledge that the only restraint on their vision was the limits of their ability. Nothing else accounts for the exhilaration in the center of their finest work. This was a time when popular art accomodated the strange and the unkempt and the lurid and the beautiful far more easily than any point since, a circumstance that brought forth the wild ether in which something like 'Bimbo's Initiation' could be created. There's more joy and horror in thses seven minutes than in all the latter-day cartoon emanations of the last quarter-century. Tom Sutpen
Die 3 Groschenoper: Ernst Busch "Moritatsong" 1931
- Length: 2:30
- Rating Average: 4.85 from 141 people
- View Count: 45537' favoriteCount='303
- Author: jozefsterkens
Tags: 1930's Bertold Brecht Die DreiGroschenoper Kurt Weill
Weakened version of the opera. For a long time unobtainable, since the fall of the DDR again in the circuit. Lotte Lenya plays Jenny instead of the part of Polly on the stage so she sings only one song in this film. Carola Neher is Poly in the film and Valeska Gert is Mrs Peachum
The Man Who Made A Monster - Frankenstein, 1931
- Length: 10:2
- Rating Average: 4.97 from 29 people
- View Count: 24053' favoriteCount='62
- Author: thescottishjazzman
Tags: 1931 boris clive colin Frankenstein james karloff whale
The tale of Frankenstein showing the trials and tribulations of the man and his monster from the 1931 classic. Directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff and Colin Clive.
Laurel & Hardy-The Dentist 1931
- Length: 5:19
- Rating Average: 4.81 from 320 people
- View Count: 302724' favoriteCount='615
- Author: Kakah1386
Tags: & 1931 Dentist Hardy-The Laurel
Laurel & Hardy-The Dentist 1931 This is a short I picked up off the Internet Stan Has A toothache & goes to Dentist, But Some how Ollies Tooth comes Out!!! Kod: http://rapidshare.com/files/9669769/LH-Dentist.rar Pass geop
1931 Original Frankenstein Movie MTV
- Length: 4:57
- Rating Average: 4.75 from 32 people
- View Count: 21755' favoriteCount='52
- Author: mrmanok
Tags: 1931 Boris Edgar Frankenstein Group Horror Karloff movie Winter
Boris Karloff stars as the monster created by Dr.Frankenstein with background music provided by the Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein".
Dracula 1931
- Length: 2:0
- Rating Average: 4.81 from 21 people
- View Count: 4885' favoriteCount='42
- Author: 777sepulture
Tags: 1931 ave bela dracula hellsing lugosi satan vampire
my own clip of dracula 1931 version. music - hellsing ost
Parlez-moi D'amour-Lucienne Boyer 1931 Col J1478
- Length: 2:59
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 40 people
- View Count: 17791' favoriteCount='118
- Author: MickeyClark69
Tags: boyer chanteuse french lucienne
Offered from CD118 at http://mcproductions.shawbiz.ca There is a sweet gentleness in this recording that would have been impossible to record six years before.The delicacy would have been lost to an acoustic horn,but electrical recording came along
Charming Ceylon 1931
- Length: 7:44
- Rating Average: 4.59 from 27 people
- View Count: 20162' favoriteCount='60
- Author: travelfilmarchive
Tags: A. bathing beach beetle boat boats cart Ceylon chaff chewing cigars Colombo colonists construction dance devil drivers elephants ferry fishing Fitzpatrick footage from in India James Lanka Lavinia lighting man map Mt nuts of ox palm party policemen resort rice riding river road scene separating Sinhalese Sri stock surf tank tea traffic travelogue trees tropical village water with
A tour of the island of Ceylon in the 1930s. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com
"Wot A Night" (1931) Van Beuren Tom and Jerry
- Length: 7:52
- Rating Average: 4.60 from 193 people
- View Count: 311462' favoriteCount='321
- Author: zootsmcgurn
Tags: animated animation beuren cartoon jerry surreal tom van
The first Van Beuren Tom and Jerry cartoon, who were the human versions of Waffles and Don. When these cartoons were released on 16mm in the forties Castle Films changed their names to Dick and Larry to avoid confusion with the cat and mouse...
CineMassacre's Monster Madness #5
- Length: 3:12
- Rating Average: 4.96 from 557 people
- View Count: 55086' favoriteCount='234
- Author: Cinemassacre
Tags: cinemassacre frankenstein karloff
Frankenstein (1931)
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