Bimbo's Initiation
Produced by Max Fleischer
Music by Sammy Timberg
Animated by Grim Natwick
Distributed by Paramount Publix Corp.
Tempting death itself by walking across loose manhole covers, Bimbo succumbs to the obvious fate of sudden gravity - he falls down a manhole.
A mouse with super-strength then punctures both the manhole cover and the concrete it sits in with a massive lock, preventing Bimbo from escape - the mouse must have set up this trap, knowing Bimbo's tendencies of walking across manhole covers, leading to this pre-meditated murder.
Somehow surviving the fall, Bimbo slides down bare concrete interspersed with stones at measured intervals, making Bimbo flip, and slam his head into the ground multiple times - "oh." he says.
A mouth then vomits him into a crowd of masked men wielding nailed boards, and melted candle hats, as well as a man with a giant cup-and-ball game. The man with the aformentioned cup-and-ball game asks if Bimbo would like to become a member - disregarding his situation, or perhaps too concussed to realize he is surrounded by exactly ten armed men, he exclaims, "NooOoo!".
The very floor beneath him betrays Bimbo, rocketing him upwards, through the ceiling, and into a new room, with a door that is marked as an exit. Running for freedom, but to be disappointing, Bimbo face-plants into the wall as the exit is revealed to be a ruse - a sheet of canvas painted to look like a door to the outside world, but in reality only a disguise to a very sturdy brick wall.
Concussed further, Bimbo is jeered at by the mysterious masked men, who will be henceforth referred to as the MMM.
With Bimbo recovering from a possible brain hemmorage, the room around him begins to vigorously spin, and when the ceiling becomes the floor, a member of the MMM emerges from the chandelier, and asks him a second time, "Wanna be a member." X2
To which again, Bimbo replies, "NooOoo!".
Immediately the floor begins to slide backwards towards the far wall, and a massive blade emerges from a fox-hole, directly behind him - the only escape being to run forwards on an endless ceiling-treadmill. Just as Sisyphus pushes his boulder, Bimbo becomes exhausted, giving the ceiling to move backwards far enough to have the blade stab him, repeatedly, seemingly with no end in sight - a true hell.
In his torment he begins to hallucinate. The knife grows a mouth that attempts to eat him, growing ever nearer, and ever hungrier, it snaps at his supple obsidian bottom.
That is just the first minute and twenty seconds of this animated short.
In the end, after suffering through many more rooms of mental and physical psychedelic torment, it is revealed that the MMM is in fact a massive group of Betty-Boop clones. Upon finding this out, Bimbo of course joins the group, giving into his lustful desires for a massive organization of sexually amplified, identical dog-women.
Him and a single clone finish the show by taking turns happily spanking each other, while every other clone dances and cheers them on.
My opinion, however...
I quite like this animation. The movement is fluid and the conceptualization of each room that Bimbo is entrapped in is rather clever. Each one has its own nuance, and sometimes even a gag that can be appreciated for the obviously massive amount of effort it took to pull off.
If anything, it can be appreciated for its visual intricacy and charming way of presenting its character in mortal peril.
A mouse with super-strength then punctures both the manhole cover and the concrete it sits in with a massive lock, preventing Bimbo from escape - the mouse must have set up this trap, knowing Bimbo's tendencies of walking across manhole covers, leading to this pre-meditated murder.
Somehow surviving the fall, Bimbo slides down bare concrete interspersed with stones at measured intervals, making Bimbo flip, and slam his head into the ground multiple times - "oh." he says.
A mouth then vomits him into a crowd of masked men wielding nailed boards, and melted candle hats, as well as a man with a giant cup-and-ball game. The man with the aformentioned cup-and-ball game asks if Bimbo would like to become a member - disregarding his situation, or perhaps too concussed to realize he is surrounded by exactly ten armed men, he exclaims, "NooOoo!".
The very floor beneath him betrays Bimbo, rocketing him upwards, through the ceiling, and into a new room, with a door that is marked as an exit. Running for freedom, but to be disappointing, Bimbo face-plants into the wall as the exit is revealed to be a ruse - a sheet of canvas painted to look like a door to the outside world, but in reality only a disguise to a very sturdy brick wall.
Concussed further, Bimbo is jeered at by the mysterious masked men, who will be henceforth referred to as the MMM.
With Bimbo recovering from a possible brain hemmorage, the room around him begins to vigorously spin, and when the ceiling becomes the floor, a member of the MMM emerges from the chandelier, and asks him a second time, "Wanna be a member." X2
To which again, Bimbo replies, "NooOoo!".
Immediately the floor begins to slide backwards towards the far wall, and a massive blade emerges from a fox-hole, directly behind him - the only escape being to run forwards on an endless ceiling-treadmill. Just as Sisyphus pushes his boulder, Bimbo becomes exhausted, giving the ceiling to move backwards far enough to have the blade stab him, repeatedly, seemingly with no end in sight - a true hell.
In his torment he begins to hallucinate. The knife grows a mouth that attempts to eat him, growing ever nearer, and ever hungrier, it snaps at his supple obsidian bottom.
That is just the first minute and twenty seconds of this animated short.
In the end, after suffering through many more rooms of mental and physical psychedelic torment, it is revealed that the MMM is in fact a massive group of Betty-Boop clones. Upon finding this out, Bimbo of course joins the group, giving into his lustful desires for a massive organization of sexually amplified, identical dog-women.
Him and a single clone finish the show by taking turns happily spanking each other, while every other clone dances and cheers them on.
My opinion, however...
I quite like this animation. The movement is fluid and the conceptualization of each room that Bimbo is entrapped in is rather clever. Each one has its own nuance, and sometimes even a gag that can be appreciated for the obviously massive amount of effort it took to pull off.
If anything, it can be appreciated for its visual intricacy and charming way of presenting its character in mortal peril.
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