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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- Sponsor: Petroleum Industry Exhibition Inc. Production Co.: Loucks & Norling Studios. Director/Producer: Joseph Losey. Production Designer: Howard Bay. Music: Oscar Levant, Hanns Eisler. Animation: Charles R. Bowers. Puppetry: Lou Bunin.
World’s Fair film that playfully promotes the petroleum industry. With stop-motion animation by silent comedian Charley Bowers, Pete-Roleum and His Cousins uses small rubber puppets to represent a clan of oil drops and their leader, Pete.
Annoyed by a heckler, they quit serving humankind, shut down the world economy, and prove the importance of petroleum. The film also weaves in the story of petroleum in America from the pioneer days to the present.
![(1930) The creepiest stop-motion cartoon ever: Hearts and Flowers. [4k, 60fps, colorized]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/tHmOF6qkRtY/mqdefault.jpg)
These characters will haunt me to my dying day.
Charley Bowers was truly gifted as an actor and animator. It's a Bird is another great video!
Here for Charley Bowers after watching many Mutt and Jeff cartoons, thanks for posting!
I've waited almost 20 years to see a restored version of this.
I never understood the shush alcohol part since i was 13, but now i finally get it. It was a prohibition joke.
When I saw the thumbnail to this video, it was so bizarre that I just had to click on it. And now that I've watched it, between the random screaming at 0:26 as if we're descending into the pits of hell, the dark lighting, the indistinct muffled yelling of the voice acting, the nightmarish Tim Burton-esque designs of the characters, the overly loud music, that lifeless beach lady, and the nightmare sequence towards the end (is that a dead person at 16:29?) I can safely say that this is one of the most terrifying educational cartoons I've ever seen. Love how they had a Swing Jazz number at the end though, despite having nothing to do with oil. How thirties can you get?
The woman screaming part at the beginning never made sense to me either when I first saw this film in 2004. Although the version I watched was very unrestored so it had a number of skips and a few scenes out of place.
This reminds me of A Symposium on Popular Songs (1962)
At the top of the 47 second mark, it says "petroleum industry exhibition presents", so this promotional animation was definitely created for the 1939 world's fair in New York...I'm sure if you Google 1939 world's fair it'll be listed as one of the exhibitions...
Charley Bowers !!!!!!
15:18 never made sense to me. The version i watched always kept skipping due to ths film being unrestored. It was from an old dvd and the master on the dvd had scenes and lines missing and the now you done it part always confused me, but now after almost 20 years i finally get to see it. Uncut. Although there are two missing in this the horse had lines when he was trying to climb the hill, and Stinky Lou said "Bees Wax"
Joseph Losey
Can you do the “Something for You to Sing” 🎤🎶🎵 from Pete-Roleum and His Cousins (1939), please⁉️
7:33-7:43 always sounded like Fantasia to me.
So this is what happens when you huff to much gas.