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Bimbo's Initiation (1931)

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With the release of Richard Linklatter's feature-length cartoon version of a Philip K. Dick novel, I thought it a good opportunity to turn, however briefly, to what is still, to me, the gold standard in animated cinema. People who apply the term 'Surreal' to films produced in the early 30s by Max and Dave Fleischer are really missing the point. Indeed there are elements that correspond to that swell in the tidepool of European formalism, but to say that it's a defining characteristic (or even an important one) is to, in the same breath, dismiss everything that made their work so unique. As is plain in even a gem as dark as their 1931 film Bimbo's Initiation, the Fleischers were not just following the aesthetic footprints of Old World models, they were running on the freedom granted them by the knowledge that the only restraint on their vision was the limits of their ability. Nothing else accounts for the exhilaration in the center of their finest work. This was a time when popular art accomodated the strange and the unkempt and the lurid and the beautiful far more easily than any point since, a circumstance that brought forth the wild ether in which something like 'Bimbo's Initiation' could be created. There's more joy and horror in thses seven minutes than in all the latter-day cartoon emanations of the last quarter-century. Tom Sutpen

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: Tasutpen

Length: 06:18
Rating: 4.75
Views: 31242

Tags: Animated  Bimbo  Brothers  Cinema  Fleischer  

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SteevDragon67 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
yeah, i noticed that! makes you wonder what our grandparents, or even great grandparents were up to (or into!) great cartoon, and the first appearance of betty boop in a canine incarnation!
SteevDragon67 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
one of the best fleisher cartoons ever (if not THE best) great for the first appearance of betty boop!
sonichedgie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
bimbo is better than mickey mouse !
sonichedgie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
lol animaniac
Fiercedeity02 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Wow... You really don't get out much then if you think this is worse then Family Guy. You should watch Hellsing OVA... Then you'll know bad.
jordimilton (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
knowing what they are exposed to these days already...uhh yeah, i see no problem letting kids watch this. haha.
cha5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Madelyneharris stick to Disney films if you can't handle the Fleischer Betty Boops.
Ninjerina (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I think Bimbo is the same species as the animaniacs kids.
GarudaBoy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
No, it was not.
maltagrl (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
and this intended for kids??

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