Thursday, July 27, 2006

Disturbing Cartoons: "Swing Wedding"

I know this is hardly to believe...what the heck, this is not a Bakshi animated feature but an Harman-Ising cartoon ( namely, "Swing Wedding") from the Golden Age!
























YES, folks! The trumpet player goes berserk--he turns one of his trumpet valves into a syringe and injects himself in the arm with a sly wink!


Yours,

Duck Dodgers
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15 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:16 pm

    Any idea who animated that particular scene?

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  2. Anonymous2:47 pm

    that third pic is kind of scary-lol

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  3. Anonymous5:43 pm

    I never see that. But i'm looking scary for this scene lol

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  4. Dennis9:02 pm

    Wow! I wish I could find a copy of this cartoon. This scene looks like it's just the tip of the iceburg.

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  5. The Lone Beader®11:36 pm

    Funny frogs. Are you sure it's just a wink in that syringe?? LOL

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  6. John S.8:49 pm

    I saw this cartoon on 16mm at CalArts. It fucked me up for life.

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  7. Anonymous12:38 pm

    wow... the days before the censors came to power...

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  8. Charles11:44 pm

    Heh... a friend of mine did the same thing in high school while cleaning his cornet. I need to find this cartoon...

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  9. :: smo ::4:31 am

    that's really awesome!

    one thing a lot of people forget about the jazz era is that A LOT of jazz musicians did A LOT of heroin! too many to list...look it up! that's a really interesting social comment, that's totally lost today! awesome screen grab!

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  10. Anonymous4:33 am

    Oh wow...I own this cartoon but I never noticed that part. I know a lot of jazz muscicians sang about drugs, some actually did them, some didn't. Are you sure that wasn't supposed to be locoweed or opium? btw Cab Calloway makes a great frog.

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  11. Anonymous8:33 am

    lol i think that cartoon was class :P
    luff zoe
    x.x.x

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  12. Anonymous4:44 am

    Youtube
    Happy Harmonies
    Swing Wedding (1937)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty7lRDACGqo

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  13. Anonymous1:55 pm

    I think it´s priceless. But a lot of it is figure of speaking. He likes jazz so much that he "got it in his vains".
    But you´ll be send to jail for making something like that today...

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  14. Bob3:24 am

    How they got this under the Production Code Administrations nose.

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  15. Bob3:25 am

    How this scene passed muster with MGM, which distributed the cartoon, and the Production Code Administration. Wow!

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