Going to Town (aka The Checkered Flag) (1920)

★★★★★ · M.E. Stocking Cartoon Breaks Barriers · JimiMod · 2014-02-09

Considering the date and the tools available at the time, that this cartoon looks amateurish, as far as the featured characters and sets are concerned is of little consequence. The fluttering technique of certain elements constantly and rapidly changing from gray to black is not something I've witnessed previously. Some Fleischer productions used this technique in short bursts (Koko's World Control?) but to use it for the full length of the project renders a surrealistic vision that as a cartoon fan since the 1950s I find odd at the very least as well as an unprecedented treasure of animation…

★★★ · Not for epileptics · Spuzz · 2019-10-28

Crudely animated shill for Pennzoil features a pair of owls (!!) going to a screening of Pennzoil related newsreels. All of them involve a long distance done in a vehicle using Pennzoil. All of them usually end with a Pennzoil can shaking hands with the vehicle. Some weird touches too. In one scene the oil can is apparently smoking, and in another, a vehicle kills it's owner! Again, very very poorly animated, it's just flickering shit throughout, so it's vastly unpleasant.