Look at that image! It's horrible! That's nightmare fuel! It's like mutated Thunderbirds puppets reprogrammed to murder us all! Who on Earth thought this was a good look?! What were they thinking?!

Cartoons from the first half of the 20th century are creepy for a lot of reasons. For one, many of the lead animators in the early days of film had dark senses of humor. Secondly, while cartoons came ...