Sorry I haven't posted in a while, life sometimes gets in the way of regular posting. I may farm that work out to someone else so I can have more time to post.Today's cartoon posting is "Spooks" a 1930 Oswald the Rabbit cartoon produced by Walter Lantz. Oswald cartoons were originally produced by Walt Disney for Universal, but Walt had the termerity to request more money for each cartoon and had the character taken from him. Oswald eventually ended up in the capable hands of Walter Lantz, who used the character for several years in some of the more bizarre cartoons you'll ever see.
This cartoon is a take-off of "The Phantom of the Opera," and while not as spectacular as the Andrew Lloyd Webber version, I was grateful that this version told the same story in three hours less than Webber's version (not a Phantom fan). I don't recommend that you watch the entire cartoon, as it drags around the second act. I direct your attention to the ending, which is one of the most bizarre endings to a cartoon I've ever seen. Watch it, starting at about the 5:53 mark, and understand that Oswald has been pursued by this phantom for the last six minutes. I'm sure your reaction will be the same as mine: "What the - ???"
