Bug Vaudeville (1921)

[saderakki]

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Isn't it the most beautiful thing you've ever seen? It's just magical. The illusion of life is perfect because they don't do anything they theoretically couldn't do in real life. Their bodies are completely alien, but their spirit is completely human.

<3 <3 <3

Comments

[sandinisti]

"Cheese cakes are bad. They make me have such queer dreams." :D

[saderakki]

"The 'hand out' that woman back there gave me has made me sleepy" hämmensi vähän aikaa...

[saderakki]

I've watched this a dozen times today, and I just cannot get enough of that cycling cockroach... <3

[tmmst]

The cockroach rides a fixed gear bike! So ahead of his/her (do animated cockroaches have gender?) times ;)

[saderakki]

Or behind? I don't know what they rode in the 1920's :)

I think that everything animated probably does have gender, at least in the way that if it's not visibly female, it's male, but I also think insects are one way to go if you're searching for less gendered animated critters. Especially these ones. And this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvzAJouHh7k

[tmmst]

True, actually the cockroach might be pretty much in his time. As far as I know, the freewheel mechanism was developed in 1902, so it wasn't that a new invention in the 1920's. But, I don't know how quickly it became the standard for bikes.

Insects are too weird to have a gender! Although the hat on the mosquito kinda points to maleness...

[saderakki]

Exactly! But what about its eyelashes, or the fact that only female mosquitoes suck blood? And if you read the weird hair as eyelashes, the hair behind it looks like hair on a balding head... That's one tricky critter to categorize.