SL Rogers (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} evil_bat) wrote,@ 2008-10-31 19:19:00 |
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...your nightmares will come true...
I think every kid who grew up in Canada during the '70's probably had the same Sunday TV routine: waiting for "The Beachcombers" to end so that we could watch "The Wonderful World of Disney"...
Particularly when you knew that TWWoD was going to feature cartoons as they always did on holidays, like HALLOWE'EN!
You guys, I can still remember watching the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and the opening shot to its whole 'cut-for-TV' sequence which shows clouds forming the shape of a hand that closes over the moon.
I can remember going to bed that night and not being able to sleep because -- as I said to my mom as I stood, all wigged out, in the kitchen in my pajamas -- I couldn't get that image out of my head.
(Which is a little weird since, really, it's not that scary compared to, say, a headless man swinging a sabre and holding a flaming pumpkin of death!)
(But then that last image of Ichabod's hat and the shattered pumpkin also scared the bejesus out of me. Perhaps this is why I have such a hard time with plot -- it's all about the ambience, baby.)
Anyways! Since today is Hallowe'en I, on a whim, sent my brother this in an email:
'when ghosts and goblins by the score
ring the bell at your front door
you'd better not be stingy or
your nightmares will come true!'
Because I knew he would TOTALLY get the reference to that particular Hallowe'en WWoD cartoon.
In response, he (being the house expert on animation) sent me links to all the Hallowe'en-y type Disney cartoons we used to watch as kids, both on TV and on VHS collections of Silly Symphonies which, I swear to God, we rented, like, every month for years.
As I was watching them today I decided that you guys REALLY NEED TO SEE THESE because they're such great examples of Disney at it's best: fantastic art (just look at those Sleepy Hollow stills again) and great characters. I mean, "The Mad Doctor" has an image like this:
I seriously don't think you'd see that in a Disney cartoon today and just imagine the kind of Mickey Mouse who would need to save his dog from such nefarious dealings! I bet you can't so just watch them, you guys. I mean, I know, I don't always watch youtube links when I get them either 'cause I'm all 'ah, I'll watch it later' but YOU MUST MAKE THE EFFORT TODAY.
For Hallowe'en!
Massive props to my brother (who does, for the record, a superb impression of the interchange between the "Ma'am" and Mickey in "Haunted House") for the linkage. If you have to be a loser because you, like, have a life then I'd watch "Trick or Treat", "The Mad Doctor" and, obviously, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" because maybe you've never seen it in its entirety?
"Trick or Treat"
"Donald Duck and the Gorilla"
"Duck Pimples"
"Haunted House"
"The Mad Doctor"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
I think every kid who grew up in Canada during the '70's probably had the same Sunday TV routine: waiting for "The Beachcombers" to end so that we could watch "The Wonderful World of Disney"...
Particularly when you knew that TWWoD was going to feature cartoons as they always did on holidays, like HALLOWE'EN!
You guys, I can still remember watching the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and the opening shot to its whole 'cut-for-TV' sequence which shows clouds forming the shape of a hand that closes over the moon.
I can remember going to bed that night and not being able to sleep because -- as I said to my mom as I stood, all wigged out, in the kitchen in my pajamas -- I couldn't get that image out of my head.
(Which is a little weird since, really, it's not that scary compared to, say, a headless man swinging a sabre and holding a flaming pumpkin of death!)
(But then that last image of Ichabod's hat and the shattered pumpkin also scared the bejesus out of me. Perhaps this is why I have such a hard time with plot -- it's all about the ambience, baby.)
Anyways! Since today is Hallowe'en I, on a whim, sent my brother this in an email:
'when ghosts and goblins by the score
ring the bell at your front door
you'd better not be stingy or
your nightmares will come true!'
Because I knew he would TOTALLY get the reference to that particular Hallowe'en WWoD cartoon.
In response, he (being the house expert on animation) sent me links to all the Hallowe'en-y type Disney cartoons we used to watch as kids, both on TV and on VHS collections of Silly Symphonies which, I swear to God, we rented, like, every month for years.
As I was watching them today I decided that you guys REALLY NEED TO SEE THESE because they're such great examples of Disney at it's best: fantastic art (just look at those Sleepy Hollow stills again) and great characters. I mean, "The Mad Doctor" has an image like this:
I seriously don't think you'd see that in a Disney cartoon today and just imagine the kind of Mickey Mouse who would need to save his dog from such nefarious dealings! I bet you can't so just watch them, you guys. I mean, I know, I don't always watch youtube links when I get them either 'cause I'm all 'ah, I'll watch it later' but YOU MUST MAKE THE EFFORT TODAY.
For Hallowe'en!
Massive props to my brother (who does, for the record, a superb impression of the interchange between the "Ma'am" and Mickey in "Haunted House") for the linkage. If you have to be a loser because you, like, have a life then I'd watch "Trick or Treat", "The Mad Doctor" and, obviously, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" because maybe you've never seen it in its entirety?
"Trick or Treat"
"Donald Duck and the Gorilla"
"Duck Pimples"
"Haunted House"
"The Mad Doctor"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
