Swing You Sinners!

Swing You Sinners! (1930)

Bimbo is seen late at night, trying to steal a chicken. He runs away from a policeman and enters a haunted cemetery. Various ghosts and monsters tell him that he will be punished for his sin.

Date of release
1930-09-23
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (41)
Runtime
9m
Genres
Animation, Horror, Music
Director
Dave Fleischer

Casting

Interesting facts

Swing You Sinners! is a 1930 American animated short film, directed by Dave Fleischer, and produced by Fleischer Studios as part of the Talkartoons series. The film is notable for its surreal, dark and abstract content. The film was released on September 20, 1930.

Background

The film was animated by Ted Sears and Willard Bowsky. George Cannata, Shamus Culhane, Al Eugster, William Henning, Seymour Kneitel and Grim Natwick also worked on it, but are uncredited in the title card. It was animated by a completely new staff who had never worked in animation before, because the studio had to replace some animators who quit.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended