Play Safe (1936) Color Classic Cartoon

Just think about all the work that went into this 7 minute cartoon. the animations, the art, the facial expressions, everything meticulously drawn frame by frame by hand... the rotoscope scene, they had to build all that. then color it in an era where most everything was still in black and white... this must have literally took months to finish. Just amazing!

ok real talk this cartoon scared the shit out of me when I was little. I remember having a VHS of cartoons like this and his dream always scared me so much omg

I remember this cartoon scaring the crap out of me as a kid. It actually caused me to have a nightmare about a riding lawn mower getting a mind of its own and trying to run over my sisters and me. Much like the train in the cartoon the controls disappeared so no one could stop it. The funny part about this is I had watched horror movies all the time and was just fine but what did give me a nightmare? A cartoon! Obviously, this cartoon was meant to scare kids into playing safely. Well, Max Fleisher, I don't recall it teaching me a lesson but you sure succeeded in scaring me when I was a kid. LOL

I watched this as a kid in the 90s and have been trying to remember its name ever since... what a weird ass and scary thing this was back then

The layers, the models, the soundtrack, the cell animation combined make this one so fascinating.

Finally, a version with comments. Stupid YouTube needs to allow comments on all videos.

Believe it or not, the locomotive the boy lost control of is actually based off a real train that was in service in 1936 on the New York Central called the Mercury. That other locomotive I recently found out is the Union Pacific 49er 4-8-2. Please excuse me if that creeps anybody out that that train was a real train.

Did anyone else born around 1993 have a random assortment of 1930s cartoons on a vhs including this one???

That dog deserves an award for such a brave & heroic act. Though this cartoon did scare me when I was a kid (it was part of those old video tapes series). Heck, it made me scared of Thomas the Tank Engine (for a while).

This cartoon is older than my grandmother and the animation is still much better than any flash animated series created in the past 15 years.

Let's this be a strict but perfect lesson to the kid, because trains are powerful vehicles and are fast enough to hit a person.

This was a fever dream locked in my subconscious for literal decades until now.

Not for the first time in a vintage cartoon, I'm left wondering "Where is this kid's mom?!" Other than that, the first part had me smiling, as that was pretty well how I was as a kid, a loop of track set up somewhere and happy as a clam to play trains for hours. Unlike this little tot, I appreciated from a young age how dangerous trains could be (and knew full well my mom would've whipped me senseless), so I was content to just run to the fence and wave whenever a train went by, little overalls and big striped hat included, and it made my day whenever the engineer gave me a toot on the horn and waved back. Still nuts about trains, so I guess I'm still that little kid inside.

Good modeling and rotoscope work on the mountain scene. Those locomotives are creepy as hell when their front ends turn into faces and the green one lets loose with that scream. Part of me thinks that this cartoon put some sort of subliminal fear into my head when I was little, because I was afraid of trains and railroad tracks until I was about 8 years old.

Dude I watched this 6 years ago, and I came back, pure nostalgia

6:49 oh so THAT’S where Cuphead got the number for the Phantom Express....

I was born in 1992, I watched this cartoon when I was 3 year old. And finally, I remember it again and I come here just to take some lost memory. Today is 26.02.2023 Thank for the clip, it made my day !

I remember seeing this as a kid in the early 2000s. My mom had a vhs tape that had old cartoons on it that she used to put on for me and this was one of the cartoons that were in that tape. Don’t know how I remember seeing this because I believe I was 3 years old at the time

The nostalgia is so real!😊

6:05 that blue train’s screech used to scare the hell out of me.