The Pincushion Man
I was this close to ordering the Ub Iwerks Collection on Amazon when I found this on You Tube (right after watching “Christmas Comes but Once A Year” and getting nostalgic about all the 30s cartoons I use to watch over and over again when I was a kid). The Pincushion Man is my favourite cartoon in the whole wide world. The villain is a giant safety pin with arms and legs, and the pin part of his body is essentially a giant phallus with which he intimidates the balloon people in Balloonland. I seriously did not notice this until last year when I read this review of the clip.
The version here has different audio from what I remember, which suggests that I might have first seen it dubbed into German. No telling anymore, as I think the tape was accidentally overwritten with Rain Man or something else lame. Either way, it’s a fairly surreal 7 minutes that probably wouldn’t be a greater waste of your time than, say, masturbating to the picture on a box of Walkers shortbread.
Chris B. said,
January 1, 2007 at 9:32 pm
I always knew the Microsoft Office Paperclip was evil.
Barbara S said,
January 24, 2007 at 7:05 pm
I was born in 1950. This is one cartoon I do remember when I was very young. I watched this with my 5 other siblings. It was a fabulous treat to set up the projector and screen in the living room. Weird cartoon but remember it fondly. I think my brother still has a copy., he emailed this to me. Thanks for posting.
TD said,
January 25, 2007 at 8:54 am
Weird hearing sound after watching it a million times in the silent version. Required some imagination which kids today miss. I have the original and had it copied over. Other great movies were Woody Wood Pecker, Hopalong Cassidy, The Christmas Dream, etc.