Snow-White (1933)
10/10
Bizarre twisted dark and absolutely magical
17 December 2012
This is a great cartoon, a masterpiece in its own right among the many very old animations of yore. The lack of colour at the time only add to its magic. There's an old animated short for just about anything you could think of, but this is the fevered dream of a madman one! It must have been quite the animation wizard to have created everything that is seen all by himself, although to look at it a sorcerer seems more likely to have have dreamed up this animated dark wonder! This is one incredibly uncanny little vision here, it's a veritable melting-pot of creepy off kilter sights, ideas and atmosphere that is altogether not so much any real kind of take on Snow White, but more of a revolving carnival sideshow of phantasmagorical imagery gone wild - There's things leaping and bounding, morphing and sprouting into and out of other things, all falling into spirals of cackling witches and beautiful menacing skull- faced backgrounds, and all this goes along to sinister musical merriment that together, creates a work that's really totally indescribable, you've got to see it for yourself! It's almost like it's alive, it has a beat, so wonderful! Twisted and eerie are taken to new heights when Koko the clown transforms into something that kind of resembles one of the Mome Raths from Alice in Wonderland with an amazing soulful voice... I found the animation impressive when Betty trips and her big butt rolls all the way down the snowy mountain! It's a very primitive style of animation now, but not to me, that's all part of the charm in how I look at it. The oddball combinations and mind-boggling scenery all made for something greatly appealing to me. It's awesome and disturbing all at once, and absolute nonsense from start to finish, but ever so much wicked fun to watch - a surreal triumph of early animation and a visual feast, one that every fan of great vintage animation needs to check out! A little crazy but charmingly wonderful and timeless x
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