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Continuing my series on The Greatest Cartoon Ever Made which began in 2008 with The Greatest Cartoon Ever Made I present today The Greatest Cartoon Ever Made. Fleischer cartoons could get pretty weird but there's a special category for 'Hide And Seek' (Released May 26, 1932).
It was animated by history's crustiest animator: Roland 'Doc' Crandall! The animation gets pretty crude at times. Some of it even resembles Terry animation from a few years previous. Crandall preferred to work on his own and from the film itself I can see why! Welcome to the inside of Doc Crandall's brain - I'd turn back if I were you ...
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Scene 1-Pervert looks through window...
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Bimbo is a cop for some reason. Pants are falling down. Mickey & Minnie flee the area...
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How many perverts have their own business card? Wait, don't answer that ...
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This cartoon has it all: Lechery, Goats On Ropes.
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Sausages
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Razzberry sputtering motorcycle anuses. Calling Dr. Freud...
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Character Designers take note: a prop can also be two separate characters. Class dismissed.
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Yes.
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Who needs The Human Centipede when we've got 'Hide & Seek'?
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I kid a lot but Crandall had a wonderfully raw expressiveness to his stuff. You'd never see something like this from one of the west coast studios. Urban anxiety permeates throughout. Nobody did this like the Fleischers!
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Mount Dave.
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Enjoy your weirdo pie!
Note: the cartoon ends with an asian stereotype. Not the kind of thing I endorse here, hence this warning, but for sheer strangeness, and it is pretty strange, I decided to post 'Hide & Seek'.