LI'L AINJIL-Krazy Kat (Charles Mintz/Columbia-1936)

[@bigblob1623]

Thanks for putting this up. I am George Herrimans Great gran son and I have never seen this. IMHO he was a genius far ahead of his time. Not just for his art but all the stories I've heard about him reflect an intelligent, open minded and kind human being who hade to navigate Jim Crow America as a mixed race man.

[@dashndot394]

Wow

[@michaellittlewood3032]

As a young boy in the 60's these shorts would appear on children's programming. My first memory of television is this great series. Thank you for posting.

[@TJRtheOriginal]

Thanks for posting this. I have read the original Krazy Kat comic strips and had no idea that this cartoon existed. It's to bad they didn't make more in the style of the original comic strip.

[@richardranke7878]

In 1963 there was a whole Krazy Kat TV cartoon series which was based more on the original Herriman strip...although some were more faithful to Herriman than others.

[@RayPointerChannel]

@@richardranke7878 but the animation was not as good.

[@SpongeDan]

​@@RayPointerChannelEspecially the ones made in Australia.

[@joaovitorcarvalhodemello3785]

This is the only Mintz Krazy Kat cartoon which is true to the comic!

[@richardranke7878]

This cartoon was MUCH more accurately based on Herriman's original comic strip. (Somehow,Offisa Pupp sounds like Popeye.)

[@Dachshund]

Apparently, William "Red Pepper Sam" Costello, who did the original voice of Popeye before he was fired and replaced by Jack Mercer, did the voice of Offisa Bull Pup in this cartoon.

[@billvallely4835]

+Dachshund Should have been Irish.

[@PlanetZoidstar]

Before Mickey, before Oswald, before Julius, before even Felix, there was Krazy Kat.

[@humbloom]

facts! also aren't both Julius and Felix inspired by Krazy Kat's design?

[@ZomBeeNature]

Apparently everyone but me knows everything about Krazy Kat and all animators. I just like the cartoon! 😉

[@johnbockelie3899]

Officer pup. sounds like Popeye. That bird sounds like Olive Oyle

[@Dachshund]

@@johnbockelie3899 That well may have been Billy Costello, who originally did Popeye's voice before he was fired and replaced by Fleischer/Famous/Paramount story man Jack Mercer.

[@stiltoncheesewright]

Very interesting. This example hues pretty close to Herriman's design ideals, especially the background drawings. Fanny Brice would've been an ideal voice for Krazy Kat, given Herriman's original "Yiddish-esque" that Krazy "spoke" in the funny-papers... Too bad was is a one-off.

[@virgoboi24]

Actually Krazy Kat's accent is a New Orleans "Yat" accent; George Herriman was originally from New Orleans and probably had that accent himself

[@lawrencelewis8105]

@@virgoboi24 I think you're right.

[@lawrencelewis8105]

also, in John Kennedy Toole's book , "A Confederacy of Dunces" set in New Orleans, he says that the correct local accent is reminiscent of Hoboken or Brooklyn, so yeah, you're on to something.

[@garycondon7719]

What a great and classic cartoon!

[@Dragonrider1227]

Get yourself a girl that looks at you the way Krazy Kat looks at Ignatz. But don’t throw bricks at her. That wouldn’t be cool.

[@Webb_Studios]

Unless your girl likes that like Krazy does. Then it’s cool

[@haileyshannon7548]

I'm currently reading a book about Herriman and they tried to do make this episode more like comic. Mintz's excuse was if they made the cartoons like comics, it could confuse people.

[@adamkennie9026]

Krazy Kat's Creator George Herriman Did An Amazing Job Doing Animation In This Cartoon!

[@OpinionsAnimationStudios]

Adam Kennie : Herrimann did not animate this vignette. Only his original comic strip's designs were brought to film. The animation was done by Manny Gould, later renowned as a Warner Brothers animator.

[@mdjxjhhxhshxhhx303]

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[@villalobosedwin1214]

@@OpinionsAnimationStudios Izzy Klein did some uncredited animation for this cartoon.

[@ArturVitorGóes]

03:46 - Krazy In His Moment Of Pure Joy After The Bricking

[@zigzag5627]

Thanks for posting this!

[@adamkennie9026]

The Original Voice Of Popeye William"Billy"Costello Voices Offissa Pupp In This 1936 Columbia Krazy Kat Cartoon

[@shoknifeman2mikado135]

AKA Red Pepper Sam

[@user-t8x1z]

i can tell

[@69thebronx]

WOW, Saturday morning. TV. TY

[@jerryturner3252]

0:00 still uses the more generic Columbia design while the cartoon uses a different more faithful design does anybody know why

[@dumontpictures7303]

The reason why the generic design is there in the title card is because this was a reissue for television. The title card you see is what they used in all of the Krazy Kat reissues. This was obviously done to remove Columbia's name. The original title card might of used the more faithful design of Krazy Kat. Seeing how this was Columbia's attempt to created a more faithful adaptation. However unfortunately the original title card is currently lost.

[@billvallely4835]

A very pleasant surprise. Is it Krazy Kat? Not really - but it's a lot closer than I had any right to expect. I do miss Krazy speaking Yiddish (how perfect would Fanny Brice have been for the part. I always thought Officer Pup had a heavy Irish brough.

[@pebey]

Actually, Krazy in the funny papers used a preposterous vocabulary, but never said an actual word of Yiddish, unless you count "oy". It's true.

[@carlosfroggymay7279]

Most of the Mitz "Krazy Kat" cartoons were rather generic "funny animal" cartoons, lesser "Felix the Cat" or "Mickey Mouse" knock offs. Shamed by a newspaper article about the missed opportunity of not using material from George Herriman's brilliant newspaper cartoons, they tried one cartoon more closely based on the actual Krazy Kat -- visually interesting, but uneven in ideas.

[@byrondoggofficial]

Krazy Kat was faithful to the comic for its 1916 and early 20's series, but once winkler got involved the series entered a downwards spiral and Krazy began to resemble Felix the Cat. Eventually when Mickey Mouse became more popular, they made him a Mickey Mouse knockoff. This was an exception though, a failed exception. After a few more years of this "Mickey Cat", Columbia/Screen Gems gave the series the boot in 1940.

[@No-hd4cg]

@@byrondoggofficial the series actually got it’s swan song in 1939 “The Mouse Exterminator” was actually part of the Phantasy series while “The Little Lost Sheep” was part of the Fables series “Krazy’s Shoe Shop” was the final theatrical Krazy Kat cartoon to actually be part of the Krazy Kat series I actually consider “The Mouse Exterminator” the return of the Felix-ish Krazy

[@TheAutisticKeybladeWielder]

we have found him..... finally....

[@SpongeDan]

Who?

[@Tinyironfist]

@@SpongeDan Krazy Kat. It is a far more faithful adaptation of the character than the other 1930s cartoons featuring Krazy Kat, as it depicts Krazy Kat as androgynous being rather than a Mickey Mouse ripoff.

[@johnnycats5157]

i used to be obsessed with the original Krazy Kat comic strip as a kid. This cartoon is... weird. Cool animation, but weird.

The Only Krazy Kat short I enjoyed

[@SteveCarras]

The ONLY time thaty these Mintz* cartoons EVER used the Herriman format. *Who STOLE Oswald from Disney, okay, contract thing..sand posthumously, very much so, Disney in recent years got him bakc... but Mintz soon had to pack uyp.

[@r.menzel8020]

I love the real Krazy Kat.

[@OswaldMiyake35]

Es mucho mejor que los demás cortos Es como la serie de los 60s

[@atarijaguarfan7893]

I think this was NOT TO BE SHOWN IN THEATERS instead to fooled thinking it was hd version of a 1916 episode

[@RayPointerChannel]

But it WAS shown in theaters. Columbia was not inclined to advance money on films they wouldn't release to recoup the expenses. That made no business sense, and this was a BUSINESS.

[@villalobosedwin1214]

It’s not HD, it’s a 1936 cartoon, and it’s a short, not an episode.

[@troytrot770]

1:31 Krazy Kat in feminine voice.

[@icecubescomicstrip]

Wasn't Mintz the producer who stole Oswald the Rabbit from Disney?

[@Dachshund]

I think so. I think Charles Mintz and his brother-in-law George Winkler were setting up a studio on the West Coast and hired away nearly all of Walt's staff (with the notable exception of Ub Iwerks). But Universal Pictures, who distributed the Oswald cartoons, pulled the rug from underneath the Mintz-Winkler studio by setting up their own cartoon studio on the Universal lot with Walter Lantz and Bill Nolan in charge.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

+Dachshund Fun to think they had to go back to square one then.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Yes, Mr. Mintz take away Oswald from Disney as some sort of anime betrayal. So, we have Mickey Mouse. Years later, Oswald become a property of Disney now thanks to Epic Mickey games.

[@seancdaug]

@@poweroffriendship2.0 Oswald isn't technically full property of Disney. Disney owns the early Oswald cartoons produced by Walt, but the later Charles Mintz (which were largely made by the same team as the Disney shorts, minus only Disney and Ub Iwerks, and maintained a very similar artistic and comedic style) and Walter Lantz (who radically changed the style, and not for the better, IMO) shorts still belong to Universal.

[@byrondoggofficial]

Krazy Kat was a sad excuse for cartoon series. It ripped of Felix the Cat first, then when Mickey became the popular toon of the land, they switched to making him a Mickey Mouse knockoff. The series was given the boot in 1940. Eventually, Gene Deitch made a successful Comic Inspired series of Krazy Kat in the 1960's.

[@dhdowlad]

Hey, have you uploaded the colorized Spark Plug cartoon?

[@unitedfilmationsinc4385]

Can You Upload Barney Google 1 And Spark Plug Colorized Please

[@goldenhorn12studios-gojira30]

3:27

[@marksitts2290]

The Moon looked like a potato chip

[@andrewcarlson3486]

open fire 5:13

[@shoknifeman2mikado135]

Krazy Kat was the first gay comic character, a male cat, in love, with a married male mouse!

[@lawrencelewis8105]

actually, Krazy Kat's gender was unspecified- Herriman referred to him/her as a "sprite, a pixie with no known sex" but yes, in the strips KK is usually referred to as "He"

[@pheefilms]

You could even argue Krazy was gender fluid, given that Kat is referred to as 'he' and 'she' seemingly at random.

[@doodelli]

Yeah Krazy’s relationship with gender and self-identification was unheard of at the time. In one strip about voting it’s ”whatever’s less offensive”. Other times the Kat might refuse binary labels altogether (smoking outside as opposed to either gendered smoking room or answering the door as ”me” and not ”the lady/gentleman of the house” as a visitor inists). What I found especially intriguing is that Herriman in no way shies away from the homoromantic angle. You even get subversions like Krazy calling himself the Julius to Ignatz’ Romeo. The gender identity isn’t dependent on love interests or conventional gender roles, it really is random.

[@TND12]

Thx for ruining it

[@keshiaanders6452]

Wow. Krazy is like Harley Quinn, in love with someone who is an abuser.

[@笹原煌太]

Krazy Kat - L'il Ainjil (1936) Opening Title & Closing (Tom and Jerry Vol.15)

[@笹原煌太]

A Columbia Cartoon Release On March 19, 1936

[@thebulbmin-CD]

1:09 This is likely referencing the African Dodger where usually a white person would throw baseballs at a black person Krazy Kat themselves had been corresponding to Herriman's blackness with a comic of Krazy Kat getting offended by the word “enigma” as a reference to the n word.

[@TND12]

Its like what’s happening today

[@18breaths66]

Why pig cop voice sound like Popeye and duck lady sound like Olive Oil?

[@elijahvincent985]

That's because the cop IS the first actor to portray Popeye, William Costello. :)

[@SpongeDan]

The "pig" is actually a dog.

[@johnnycats5157]

while this is definitely more faithful to the Herriman strip, it's still fooking awful. some things never change it seems.

[@ovidiu-adriansabie3795]

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