Channel Frederator Blog

Are the holidays just too darn chipper for you? Think you’re a little noir at heart? Fear not! Channel Frederator comes bearing gifts of alcoholism, commercialism, and gloom… ism - just in time for you to kick off the crueltide season.

— Ruby Rocket, Private Detective, submitted by Sam Niemann - It was a dark and stormy night when he waltzed in. Ruby needed a drink. Actually, she needed to pay attention to his case. She wanted a drink.

— The Bunjee Jump Skeleton Man, submitted by Tanjetsfilms - Holiday exploitation got you down? Hey, could be worse…

— Death by Dying, submitted by Anton Bogaty - A girl is haunted by violence - onscreen and off.

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In Disney’s 1929 Silly Symphony “The Skeleton Dance”, we see several skeletons dancing around in a graveyard. This cartoon was quite popular, and was the first cartoon to use non-post-sync sound.

The cartoon was so well received that ten years later, Mickey Mouse was trapped in a haunted house, playing music for a group of dancing skeletons.  This cartoon was “Haunted House”. It reused many bits from “The Skeleton Dance”, many of which were the exact same drawings, frame for frame.

-Floyd Bishop