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marble falls

(68,569 posts) Sat Sep 13, 2025, 08:58 PM Saturday

The Peanut Vender

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Cute and disturbing at the same time. LudwigPastorius Saturday #1

It's that balance that makes it work for me. A lot of early animations are a little disturbing. The Out of the Inkwell . marble falls Sunday #2

Yeah, even just the style, regardless of content, back then unsettles me. LudwigPastorius Sunday #3

It caught my attention when I was a kid. The whole idea that the cartoon world had their own laws of physics ... marble falls Sunday #4

LudwigPastorius

(13,399 posts)

1. Cute and disturbing at the same time.

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Sat Sep 13, 2025, 11:54 PM

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marble falls

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2. It's that balance that makes it work for me. A lot of early animations are a little disturbing. The Out of the Inkwell .

Reply to LudwigPastorius (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 07:47 AM

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... animations were that way, though not to this degree, to me.These are the beginnings of animation and the creators were charting new territory with no boundaries. Some of the earliest pre-mouse Disney was this way, too.

LudwigPastorius

(13,399 posts)

3. Yeah, even just the style, regardless of content, back then unsettles me.

Reply to marble falls (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:14 PM

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...that whole "rubber hose" animation thing.

When you add in surreal and macabre happenings, like in "Swing You Sinners"...hoo boy.

marble falls

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4. It caught my attention when I was a kid. The whole idea that the cartoon world had their own laws of physics ...