a short placing heavy emphasis on Hungarian Rhapsody No. II is a rite of passage for golden age cartoons. Bugs Bunny did it! Tom and Jerry did it! Daffy and Donald! but one thing Woody Woodpecker has above the competition is that he is held hostage by a group of gangsters and is forced to entertain, lest he get executed. amazing
I have just learned that in addition to Mickey Mouse / Steamboat Mickey being public domain, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Felix the Cat will also be public domain in 2024….if they make horror movies on these guys I will die
I'm gonna sound pretentious af with this but the whole steamboat willie public domain schlock going on rn could've been genuinely interesting if someone wanted to explore the cosmic industrialized horror of modern disney and the monetization of childhood wonder through some sort of psychological horror piece but this is the world where winnie the pooh got a slasher flick announced like a day after getting into the public domain and said slasher flick going on to become one of the worst rated movies in the modern era so I guess I really shouldn't have expected more than a barrage of low-hanging 'what if...Michael Mouse...but...evil??' projects