The Headless Horseman (1934)

[@PhilosopherWR]

I like how this version shows Katrina 'plump as a partridge' the way she's described in the original story.

[@pyromaniac709]

So katrina was thicc?

[@MaliceInCandyland]

That's Victorian speak for she has a huge rack. :P

[@tanimation7289]

@@pyromaniac709She is rich and so would have more food to eat.

[@guntherthequizmaster9515]

The horseman was a Hessian mercenary, sent to these shores by German princes to keep Americans under the yoke of England, but unlike his compatriots who came for money, the Horseman came for the love of carnage. When battle was joined, there you'd find him. - Baltus van Tassel, Sleepy Hollow (1999)

[@cha5]

Interesting little short, I really had no idea that there was any other animated version of The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow besides the 1949 Disney one, Thanks for sharing it with us.

[@tambrosia]

THANK YOU for posting I havent' seen these old commercials since I was a kid in 1950's

[@Bobsheaux]

My god, there were SIXTY-FOUR KIDS in that class room (and 8 in the outhouse)! I guess overcrowding in schools was ALWAYS a problem. :S

[@wstine79]

Most definitely.

[@ThePaperwing93]

they're all scared by the horseman but they don't notice the living clock

[@arbytv5139]

In the 1930s, practically everything was alive in cartoons.

[@myman9424]

There were just a few video tapes at my grandparents' place, so I would always watch the same ones when visiting there as a kid. This was one of them.

[@OleAlexanderBrunaes]

Same.

[@FiendishMcEvil]

Forget about the racism and Katrina's well rounded shape, what the hell is up with Brom Bones' nose?!

[@calideson]

Ah, the good ol' days

[@brucenicholls854]

This is terrific, fabulous animation!

[@samizayed6010]

This was Release in 1934 15 Years Before The 1949 Version

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

Having just recently played "Cuphead", I notice that Goopy Le Grande appears to have taken some influence from Brom Bones in this short.

[@divinecomedyproductions967]

It’s the nose

[@mraaronhd]

Ub Iwerks, Disney's original go to animator and the father of Mickey Mouse, worked on this and when he returned to Disney studios, he also worked on Disney's version of The legend of Sleepy Hollow. The man worked on 2 versions of this story. Pretty awesome.

[@SpiderandMosquito]

the legend of sleepy hollow. a tale so nice he made twice :)

[@aleksandarvil5718]

15 years difference between this short cartoon (1934) and Disney's version (1949)

[@ericsander3620]

I'd say Ub Iwerks is more like Mickey's godfather. Walt created the original drawing and Ub perfected the design for the first short.

[@pyromaniac709]

No wonder it looks so disney 😂

[@Musicradio77Network]

The music for this cartoon was done by Carl Stalling who did the score for this and other ComiColor before he joined WB for the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" cartoons to do the music for all of the cartoons. This musical score was one of his early efforts before he joined the WB bandwagon. Part of the music from 1:14 to 1:24 was also used in a Bugs Bunny cartoon "Rabbit Seasoning" with Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd.

[@KathyHarrington]

This is by no means a slam against Disney, but in some respects, the ending was more positive than Disney's version, as well as the original book. Not only does Ichabod survive his encounter with the Headless Horseman but he gets the upper hand on his tormentors in the end. To this I must say #ScoreOneForIchabod

[@TheRickeyracoon123]

I love the ending too. It makes ya feel who is the real crooks around the town all this time. And yet icabod have them the up yours .

[@KathyHarrington]

@@TheRickeyracoon123 Truer words were never spoken, this was a much more positive and satisfying ending as a whole.

[@TheRickeyracoon123]

@@KathyHarrington HERE HERE!

[@OleAlexanderBrunaes]

I remember that cartoon, thank for uploading! :)

[@Emilykrabappel]

I remember seeing this with my cousins at a young age in my grandparents bedroom. I think it was from a dvd.

[@limelightraver5690]

8:01 Honestly, the singing bells with the creepy mouths are far more terrifying than the supposedly scary headless horseman chase scene in this cartoon. 🤣

[@pelida77]

What an amazing cartoon!!! really funny, and the music is brilliant!!

[@deadlyshoesalesman]

I would have liked more of the headless horseman sequence. Oh, well: we do have a great animated version of the story from Disney. (Ub Iwerks is credited for "special processes" on that 1949 film.)

[@brucenicholls854]

This is fantastic animation!

[@Musicradio77Network]

I recently got the silent black & white version on 8mm which is the same cartoon I have on 16mm. Both are from Castle Films.

[@1993joshualiu]

Brom bones laughs like Bluto.

[@ratlesnacke6167]

This cartoon is really Nice

[@athull08]

@Blakefe the book describes her as "as plump as a partridge"

[@eigi717]

ohh... who would forget the singing bells... love it... ;)

[@FernandoMata-t4t]

The only thing i don't like about this is that the chase scene is too dark to see you can't even see it.

[@ul7185]

The Nostalgia Merchant Version of Classic Cartoons

[@gainsbarre13]

Ub Iwerks was Disney's original partner. Also this was made 15 years before the Disney adaptation. Just putting some junk in perspective...

[@arbytv5139]

Another Interesting note, Ub Iwerks was also involved in Disney’s version too

[@chalamala1]

Love this cartoon....watched it lots of times when I was a tiny tod!

[@user-zf3fc9tn5k]

I just randomly found this while watching the song scene from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." .................man the 30s were fucking weird.... Also, why is Katrina so.........ya know..........um......busty? :P

[@anjelicavioletta3012]

the original novel of sleepy hollow written by irving was created on 1820,so maybe on that era the curvy and fat woman considered attractive and beautiful

[@SirSilentSquall]

What's up with the dude eating live fish straight from the fish bowl? Is that what they did back then?

[@hankreardenfan1019]

I thought that the guy was supposed to be the dumb one.

[@d-manthecaptain1382]

It's a joke, it's meant to make you laugh

[@hankreardenfan1019]

This one's really sad because Ichabod's shown to really love Katrina, and Katrina tricks him for her own amusement and to be mean.

[@Ivanatis]

interesting adaptation

[@JamesTyreeII]

Oh the 30's…….

[@baxterfilms]

1:14-1:26 sounds similiar that what Stalling used in such WB cartoons like Rabbit Seasoning.

[@Abracamoron]

This seems a lot like the Disney version, some slite differences

[@MWolfL]

Cool, the only Headless Horseman cartoons I've seen were the Disney one and Scooby Doo ones. I don't think Hey Arnold's "The Headless Cabbie" counts.

[@soniamarie152thehusky]

That Katrina always rejected ichabod’s kiss she likes bones because he’s big and tough but ichabod not and she hates him 😅

[@OleAlexanderBrunaes]

@soniamarieruvalcaba5121 In my head-canon, Ichabod tries to touch her face with the tip of his nose. The head-canon of 2-year-old me, he tried to poke holes in her face with his nose.

[@soniamarie152thehusky]

@@OleAlexanderBrunaes oh lol so funny 😅

[@JonathanKruk]

Washington Irving indeed describes Katrina as "plump as a partridge." Plus Mothman, Washington Irving was a bit racially insensitive too. Given the times for the cartoon 1934, and the Legend f Sleepy Hollow 1819, they were products of their times.

[@wstine79]

I found this bundled with the Jeff Goldblum Sleepy Hollow. Why they turn Ichabod into Popeye?

[@pyromaniac709]

Jeff goldblum??? What youre talking about?

[@wstine79]

@@pyromaniac709 there is a old 1979 TV movie of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow where Jeff Goldblum played Ichabod Crane

[@zealkurusuthegatorman5439]

​@@wstine79I saw that one before he takes the role as Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park! Seriously, I love that guy!

[@nilesclifford9704]

​@@zealkurusuthegatorman5439and David Levinson from independence day.

[@zealkurusuthegatorman5439]

@@nilesclifford9704 that too!

[@scottof83]

Some of the music sounds like the same one they used for Merry Dwarfs.

[@muziwandilemahlangu5833]

Someone, please tell me thename of the song from 4:40-5:40..... thanks in advance!!

[@dennman6]

From about 5:07 you hear The Arkansas Traveler, a very popular rustic piece, often featured by bluegrass fiddlers.

[@thejoexman]

2:11 well, good to see Ichabod's cloning experiments were successful

[@charlesgomon8291]

What do U mean, thejoexman?

[@imxformed]

the headless horseman is based on an irish myth called a dullahan

[@sierrastanley3109]

i really like Brom instead of Ichabod, cause Brom loves Katherin!!! and Ichabod (although likes katherin) wants her money more!!! Brom is never at all hinted to wanting Katherin's money, just that he loves Katherin.

[@celluloidjunkie13]

Its been nearly a year since you posted this question- any chance you ever located or found more info on the 16mm print in question? I would love to obtain it

[@killachris8889]

hey if anyone has old holiday tv show's and special's with the tv add's that came with it i'm willing to buy

[@TaylorZanderFrancis]

Isn't this the first adaptation of Sleepy Hollow to not only be animated, but also in colour?

[@paulorocky]

Wow back in the days when edentulism in early adulthood was the norm.

[@dogg-paws]

Yeah, but presentism can be just as bad.

[@denniscass]

The gingers aren't exactly glam either

[@DivineKnight_115]

Oh boy those house servants. Oof that didn’t age well. Aside from that this reminds me of a popeye cartoon.

[@SANAGUILAR24]

the reason katrina is so plump here is because back then plump females were considered the ideal woman because thy were capable of bareing childeren some even thought the that if u married a plump lady it was a gr8 chance of her giving her husband a male arre to his estate

[@dbzgal04]

Being plump was also associated with being wealthy.

[@anjelicavioletta3012]

finally i found the answer on this version of sleepy hollow. On the disney version (1949),i still confused who was exactly the headless horseman

[@zethcool]

that's the problem, in the book and also in the Disney movie the ending was ambiguous. But the best explanation was all a prank of bones.

[@vks_productions]

It is implied that Bones did it. It is up to the viewer/reader to decide whether the Horseman is real or not. This one just flat out says that it was bones.

[@LAPO5511]

3:00 - 3:05 - 3:55 - 5:45 Jingle from cartoon of Ted Eshbaugh in the Snowman (1933)

[@OleAlexanderBrunaes]

This is lots of famous theme tunes (1:39, 2:33, 2:59, 3:29, 4:40, 6:13 and 6:18), can someone tell me name of them? 8D P.S. I know the last one (8:01)... :)

[@kevinsheldrick917]

1:39 Swanee River; 3:42 Polly Put the Kettle On (briefly); 6:13 The Westminster Quarters; 6:18 Home, Sweet Home

[@CoasterChick22]

ub iwerks worked with disney whent ehyf irst started out

[@connorDorothy27]

Like if MC Chris sent you here!

[@jimcunliffe5400]

1934. Color? How is this possible? I am truly astonished. Can someone please explain? My dad was only 11 years old.

[@dennman6]

Technicolor was introduced in 1915, and the first full-length feature in Technicolor was 1922 The Toll Of The Sea. And throughout the 1920s silent movies had partial scenes of color and a few feature films were entirely in Technicolor. Animation had Technicolor since 1930, but this cartoon is in a process called Cinecolor. Color in cartoons became more prevalent from 1935 on.

[@Neo-Najarin]

katrinas put on a few pounds

[@beverlypena4803]

I see how common the derogatory depiction of black people were back then. A constant cultivation of negative imagery to cultivate racism. I cannot over look it even though I love the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

[@raygunsupernun]

Same here. Racism wasn't okay back then, and it's not okay now. Love over hate ❤️

[@pyromaniac709]

I was wonderring if it was a black guy too😂

[@user-cs7fg5eq9r]

Actually, I thought this depiction wasn't nearly as bad as you'd usually find in older cartoons. Outside of the typical stereotypical appearance there not mocked or made fun of.

[@ididntsignupforthis9355]

That's older than the moon landing...

[@paulorocky]

It’s older than the United Nations

[@anthonygozutok7068]

sest bient .

[@1legomaster]

whoh katrina put on a few couple pounds....

[@anjelicavioletta3012]

So is this the real story?? That the headless horseman is actually brom bones???

[@mevb]

Well, it's hinted at that the Headless Horseman MIGHT have been Brom Bones in disguise to scare away Ichabod so he could win over Katrina. The fate of Ichabod in the book is ambigious (which the Disney version in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad follows a bit more faithfully) as the only trace left was Ichabod's hat and a smashed up pumpkin which was thrown from The Headless Horseman. So it could either be that The Horseman got Ichabod and took him away (presumbly taking him to the afterlife), OR that Ichabod got so frightened that he fled from Sleepy Hollow, never to return and eventually married a rich widow, according to rumor that the Sleepy Hollow Residences don't believe but rather think it's the former.

[@viper5338]

What?

[@InsertName125]

It's not "Anime". "Anime" is Japanese production line animation, with a distinctive style of its own (detailed backgrounds, and laughably unanimated foregrounds).

[@Jcolinsol]

In what way does "presentism" ever have worse effects than racism?

[@Developtis]

8:02 :)

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[@richardgreenleaf3259]

I thought I'd seen bad versions of the story before. This one might top some of the others. You can tell it was made in the '30s just looking at the cultural depictions of black people in it. Were their black people in Irving's story? Absolutely, so they should appear in adaptations of it, though this is the first one I've seen to acknowledge they were there. Which I'm not sure was a good thing given how they were depicted as looking more animal than human. Also Katrina looked much more like one of the housewives than the young coquette of the story. She should have been plumb, but she was more than plumb here. And Brom as the Horseman, Irving certainly suggests that possibility when he has Brom have a knowing look and a laugh about Ichabod's disappearance, though I much prefer the idea the Dutch housewives were right and it was a spirit that carried Ichabod off.

[@anthonypalermo8816]

Ban Weed

[@trinitymplayers]

There was at least one black person in the original story, but he was a servant for Katrina's father, and he only appears to deliver Ichabod his boss's invitation to the fateful party that leads to his encounter with the Horseman.

[@anthonygozutok7068]

Taeux merre

[@bunnywailer14]

I like this cartoonist's style more but I think the disney headless horseman cartoon is waaaaaay better...and not so blatantly racist XD

[@pyromaniac709]

Is this disney?

[@justwaiting5744]

It is not. Ub Iwerks previously worked for Disney before pursuing his own studio.

[@trentscioneaux8718]

Yeah and apparently there was falling out between Disney and Iwerks.

[@justwaiting5744]

@@trentscioneaux8718 Ooooooh wut's the tea? 👀

[@trentscioneaux8718]

@@justwaiting5744 I don't precisely remember, either it was about a copyright issue or money issue.

[@shannonbynum2796]

I didn't even know about the headless horsemen until now.

[@zoeybalkin1614]

I learned it from school

[@curtisdavis2157]

#SheJustThrewPoorIchabodOutOnHisBehind #FeminismPeople!

[@anthonygozutok7068]

Oh purer je connais bob leponge care et queux de taeux meufs is de djoumi

[@justinpino8115]

The chase scene was not as epic as the other one.....

[@joshualee7006]

Justin Pino which one?

[@cecebuggington2007]

@@joshualee7006 the Disney one

[@FernandoMata-t4t]

You can barely see it compare to the disney one

[@Jcolinsol]

Link does not work.

[@InsertName125]

This story bothers me. If we want to be told that evil pays, all we have to do is look at real life. We don't need to be reminded of it.

[@physicalgrafiti12345]

I thought Katrina was supposed to be as plump as a partridge...not as big as a whale.

[@Mstoc0814]

I was surprised that there was anime of Sleepy Hollow older than Disney.

[@Mstoc0814]

英語が得意ではないので、日本語で書きますね。えっと、「アニメという表記は日本のアニメーションだけに使われるんだよ」ってことでしょうか？　日本ではアニメーションの省略形でアニメという言葉を使うので、翻訳機にコメントを通した結果、あの文章になってしまいました。海外ではアニメとアニメーションを分けているんですね。

[@briancomiskey9824]

I love Ub Iwerks and I love the Legend of Sleepy Hollow...but this was pretty bad.

[@MOTHMAN225]

cartoons have been racially insensitive for a long time. And sometimes, they still re.

[@karenmarieramos2908]

Man they suck at drawing African American

[@tambrosia]

look at the year kmr....and they were not african americans nor blacks they were negroes or the other n word....

[@ratedsophistikated94]

@@tambrosia Black Americans are not "African" anyway.

[@marlonjones3202]

These racist depictions of African-Americans were prevalent in the "Great America" these MAGA supporters are envisioning. A time you could enjoy this type of disrespect of minorities and not feel bad about it. This is why there's a need for diversity. Because generations of our country find comfort in seeing what they grew up with, and see any change as evil.

[@user-cs7fg5eq9r]

Yeah, you go! Needlessly dragging politics into an apolitical cartoon! Woo-hoo!

[@dogg-paws]

Here: historians(dot)org(slash)perspectives(slash)issues(slash)2002(slash)0205

[@ratedsophistikated94]

Lmao you can tell how racist this cartoon was, if that's supposed to be a black person.

[@clinteldorado]

Shut the fuck up.

[@UpBloareKiss-53]

now this is another thing I know this shit is racist they should take it off of KZbin at mediately

[@Desslar]

Better to learn from history then censor it.