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Graveyard Jamboree (4:11)
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So, this uses stop-motion animation, puppetry, and silhouette animation. It was made in 1998, but I first saw it sometime in the early 2000s, on Exposure. It uses a 1930 song performed by Harry Reser, about a character called Mysterious Mose, who first appeared in a 1930 Betty Boop cartoon. In this version (which is quite different from the Boop cartoon), Mose is a puppet who wanders around scaring people and in the end, conducts an impromptu concert in a graveyard. The film is at once spooky, amusing, kitschy, and retro-cool.


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