Hell's Bells

[@yohannbiimu]

It's amazing that Disney started out with so many people who became names themselves in the animation industry, like Carl Stalling, Huge Harman, Rudolf Ising, Isidor Freling, and Robert McKimson. The coincidence of it is almost cosmic.

[@FernandoGastelo]

I agree. This one is as equally good as the "Skeleton Dance". Is kinda of a shame that Disney doesn't even try to make dark cartoons like this anymore

[@otanikiyoshi]

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[@gnikcohs]

I prefer Hell's Bells to Skeleton Dance but the sheer verve, imaginative ingenuity, and virtuosity of those skeletons were a creative one man coup that is rarely equalled in animation. On the other hand Hell's Bells is also a tremendous visual masterpiece. My favorite parts were when the imp ran into the jagged cave wall becoming a jagged imp. Just look at her at 3:11. And then there was that most magnificent of animated creatures, the dragon cow. Of course it wasn't all Ub Iwerks, as music director Carl Stalling was in top form too.

[@jterg4522]

gnikcohs i

[@WinstonBoBinston]

I’m getting cuphead vibes!

[@yohannbiimu]

Ooops, I almost forgot to include Ub Iwerks in the mix. His contribution to cinematic history is legendary.

[@TheAnimationEmpire]

3:18 - The jagged dance movements are awesome! - TAE

[@davidrosen3970]

they were smoking really good stuff. back then

[@BeauSkunk]

1:16 the music piece "Funeral March of a Marionette" plays, which is best known as being used as Albert Hitchcock's TV series theme song.

[@hsdinoman2267]

played the AC/DC song off the same name over this, surprisingly it actually fit quite well i think

[@yohannbiimu]

4:30 - Stalling would later use this music (from Felix Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave overture) in Chuck Jones' "Inki" series, where this music would play when an odd minah bird appeared.

[@rnigma]

Even then, Carl Stalling worked wonders with music... I loved his adaptation here of "Funeral March of a Marionette" (aka the Alfred Hitchcock theme). It's a lot more fun than Disney's better-known demonic effort, the Night on Bald Mountain segment of Fantasia (awesome in its own right).

[@jipowap]

So that's how the Chernabog came into power. Faithful servant escapes the king under the mountain after his friend is eaten. Explains why most Disney dogs are on the good side, Chernabog must have eaten the bad ones in revenge.

[@saifalbowg7978]

that's a very exellent question

[@rnigma]

Many of them came from Kansas City, as Disney did. Stalling was the orchestra leader in a KC theatre.

[@jterg4522]

The devil looks like the devil of cuphead

[@TheAnimationEmpire]

1:11 - Serpent eats the bat and grows wings! =^) - TAE

[@looneywoman]

Excellent from Stalling, but then I've always enjoyed that piece anyway. :) It's *really* a shame Disney couldn't get the rights to "Dance Macabre" for "Skeleton Dance." I know he had hoped for that one, and I'm sure Stalling would have done well with that one also...

[@HenryandSpencer]

feels like Max Fleisher made this

[@saifalbowg7978]

and so i can see how devils live in hell

[@TNT-zd6ml]

The title of video is a ac dc song

[@dontsueme]

Oh is this song the inspiration for Eminems Alfred-Theme's backing track?

[@saifalbowg7978]

may all devils and demons and satans go to hell and never get out

[@AnotherDani31]

It seems to me that the Final Boss of Cuphead is inspired by this animation.

[@saifalbowg7978]

hey dont say that if u are a devil then u well go to hell an never get out of it being an angel is better tha being a devil if u r a devil then you'll go to hell and live in it 4ever but if your an angel then you will go to paradise heaven and u will a happy life 4ever

[@Stet.]

That made no sense dude

[@saifalbowg7978]

so i can see how devils live in hell and becuse it's a very funny cartoon

[@seandupuis7376]

Back when Disney was fun instead of Lame & Gay

[@saifalbowg7978]

and becuse it's a very funny cartoon

[@ethanp.796]

1:16

[@Guenter34]

That's pretty messed up.

[@toonalootown2331]

Bloop

[@toonalootown2331]

What If Tattoos Came To Life…

[@toonalootown2331]

0:15

[@eliwinston7987]

But what do you compare it with this kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGiYZ3mGnrGfppo

[@まはたなやに]

Cup head

[@Xion_Toshiro]

DISNEY'S INFERNO

[@CheetahFoxx]

Although his heart is certainly in the right place and the concept is certainly dark enough, the execution just just doesn't seem to make it. The characters are too simple and the score, though fitting, felt flat. It feels like a playful romp through hell rather than the bottomless woe, absolute terror, and eternal damnation that the early Fleischer Brothers made in works like Snow White, Minnie the Moocher, and (most of all) Swing You Sinners.

[@GwynnEarl]

I hate you.