Cartoon Roots: Halloween Haunts (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

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Nothing says All Hallows' Eve like early animated films, with their bumptious bent for ghosts and goblins! Now the Stathes Collection brings you a ghoulish gaggle of shorts featuring Max Fleischer, Otto Messmer, Koko the Clown, Mutt and Jeff, and more—in scary soirees with the supernatural! Come for the classics; stay for THE HAUNTED HOTEL (1907), one of the first-ever animated frights! Films include: THE HAUNTED HOTEL (J. Stuart Blackton, 1907) THE PUMPKIN RACE (Roméo Bosetti, 1907) Out of the Inkwell: OUIJA BOARD (Max Fleischer, 1920) Dinky Doodle: JUST SPOOKS (Walter Lantz, 1925) Out of the Inkwell: KO-KO SEES SPOOKS (Fleischer, 1925) ALICE'S MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY (Disney, 1926) Mutt & Jeff: SLICK SLEUTHS (Dick Huemer, 1926) PETE'S HAUNTED HOUSE (Lantz, 1926) Felix the Cat: SURE-LOCKED HOMES (Otto Messmer, 1928) THE FRESH LOBSTER (ca. 1920s) with Billy Bletcher Snap the Gingerbread Man: THE WITCH'S CAT (Kinex Studios, 1929) Waffles & Don: THE HAUNTED SHIP (Van Beuren, 1930) Felix the Cat: SKULLS AND SCULLS (Messmer, 1930) Tom & Jerry: WOT A NIGHT (Van Beuren, 1931) Felix the Cat: BOLD KING COLE (Van Beuren, 1936) Extras! Booklet, archival galleries, and new music by Robert Israel and Charlie Judkins Featuring Films from the Stathes Collection Co-Produced by Thunderbean Animation