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The Walt Disney Alice Cartoons (from the mid-twenties, not 1914 as listed in the credits) are among the best of this bunch. "Alice's Egg Plant" is a howl! A Communist rooster named "Little Red Henski" goes to the chicken farm and agitates the hens to go on strike! A real knee-slapper that must be seen to be believed. "Alice The Torador" has our heroine in a nice bullfighting farce.

Betty Boop makes a couple of nice appearances and there is the amusing "Frogland," based onn the Aesop's Fable "The Frogs" and their King." Nice, aside from the bad frog puns (about the new leader being "full of hops," ad nauseum).

Racism also rears it's ugly head in these toons. "Inki and the Mynah Bird" has an African child who is drawn more simian than human chasing the said animal. Ub Iwerks' "Little Black Sambo" is largely faithful to the tale (aside from the absence of the father Black Jumbo and the crude racial gags). Then there's Walter Lantz' "Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat (1941)." This is jaw-dropping and must be seen to be believed as every crude stereotype in the book is trotted out and the Black characters (aside from the light-skinned female booty-swinging jezebels) are drawn to resemble monkeys more than humans. Hard to believe that the man who brought us Woody Woodpecker brought us this monstrosity. At least "Coal Black and De Sebben Drarfs," (perhaps the most racist cartton of all time) is not included.

Like I said, it's entertaining at best and interesting even at it's worst. Certainly worth a look.

Define weird
Well, it ain't complete and most of 'em ain't weird, but THE COMPLETE WEIRD CARTOONS is fun. In fact, the only thematic glue here is the age of this collection - none were made later than 1945.
Still, there are a few gems and semi-precious stones here. There are two very early Walt Disney cartoons, "Alice's Eggplant" and "Alice the Toreador." They're a charming combination of live action and black-and-white animation. Alice was a young girl who was featured in a number of Disney's early works.
There are a few I suppose you could call weird. Charle's Bowers' "It's a Bird" and Wladyslaw Starewicz's "Frogland" and "The Devil's Ball" both employ stop-action animation rather than the usual pen-and-ink stuff. Starewicz's stuff defies brief description, Bower's "It's a Bird" is a live action/animation combo about a man who discovers a metal eating bird. If they wanted to include a really weird Betty Boop they could have done better than "Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions." They could have used "Snow White" (the Betty Boop one with Cab Calloway), or "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You," which features live-action cut-ins of a very young Louis Armstrong.
There are a few here you'll never see on Saturday morning, cut for their racist content. Ub Iwerks "Little Black Sambo" and Chuck Jone's "Inki & the Minah Bird" seem fairly tame even by today's standards. Walter Lanz's "Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat," on the other hand, is pretty bad. Jone's Inki seems no more a stereotype of a black male than Elmer Fudd is a stereotype of a white male. "Scrub Me..." will take your breath away with its overt racism.
In all, this is a fun and interesting collection. These are NOT cartoons you'll want to plunk your unattended children in front of, though.

some real gems here.
granted, its not all reproduced in the best quality; there's some real wear and tear here- but the rough edges actually improve the 'toons in a way, and the odds and ends (like the drive in movie theater ads) give it all a real authentic feel throughout..... the Charley Bowers stop motion animated thing in it, methinks is the centerpiece, its so incredible to see the stop motion effects they used in the 1930s! They just don't make 'em like they used to.