Play Safe (1936) Color Classic Cartoon
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- A little boy jumps on a real train and learns a lesson about safety.
Director: Dave Fleischer -
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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
Same here, it actually gave me a nightmare about a riding lawn mower that was chasing me around and whose controls vanished so that no one would be able to stop it. LOL
Same. Legit haunted me as a kid, wanted the dog just to leave the shitty kid to die, tbh
same
yup, important message tho. germany where i live has a lot of train traffic, and accidents involving kids, teens AND grownups being hit by trains, or getting to close to the overhead powerline are all too common 😔
@@davetheelasticgoose4838 it was very tragic
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!
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
The streamline locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
That's what thomas and friends basically are doing now.
Same here, I must have been terrified by this as a small child because I have weird PTSD -like reactions to this. Especially the creepy faces on the locomotives and where the dog’s tail almost gets run over.
Wait, that lawnmower dream.
Reminds me of that Simpsons Halloween episode where Willie is Freddy Krueger.
Dude, me too. I still get the chills watching it.
Finally, a version with comments.
Stupid CZcams needs to allow comments on all videos.
I agree with you.
@@Pablo-312 Gauges: Hello, brat! *laugh evilly* Play safe! Play safe! Hesitate!
Train: I kidnapped you! *laughs evilly* Beware! Take care!
Mountain: You little brat will die forever! *laughs evilly* Better play safe!
Toddler: *screams* Rover, help me! I've been kidnapped on a train!
@@Pablo-312 What's happening in the story of Play Safe (1936)?
@@spungboy gotta learn them sometime.
@@OzPoohProductions a kid bumps his head and has a dream of driving a train, the end of the dream is that he encounters another train and the boy wakes up and is saved by rover (the dog) from a train roaring down the tracks.
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
me too. When i was young i had a VHS set with hundreds of old Cartoons from the 30's and 40's (old Looney Toons, Old Superman cartoons, etc. This was one of the clips and i remember it being creepy. Lots of WW2 era stuff too.
This video is interesting since it uses very strange animation part way through the short. I wonder if 5:39 was rotoscoped.
I share the same sentiment.
Same. I remember getting this on a VHS with a bunch of other max fletcher and old Casper the friendly ghost stuff. My mom let me buy it from one of those old discount bins at Walgreens back in the early 90’s. There was a lot of obscure, old cartoons in those bins. Basically public domain cartoons at this point
Yeah fleischer's cartoons are known for being weird and dark
The layers, the models, the soundtrack, the cell animation combined make this one so fascinating.
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.
Not creeped out at all. The freight loco towards the end looks like a Hudson..
@@ericzerkle5214 It's a Pacific (4-6-2).
@@alexpaumen3937 well whatever. I'm not a steam locomotive expert.
@@ericzerkle5214 i know almost nothing about American locomotives but it looks like you're right about it being a Hudson. I think the other guy was pointing out the wheel arrangement
@@LHoriginal I'm no expert either.
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).
Imagine a Mr. Pickles take on this.
6:48 is my favorite part
You should be scared of Thomas the spider lol
The dog ran faster than a 4-6-2 steam locomotive to rescue the kid.
@@ARandomUser12 The 4-6-2 locomotive's name is Montana.
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.
And even if a train brakes while moving fast, they usually only actually stop after one mile
Not just hit, splatter.
Also water is wet.
And a Speeding locomotive has no mind of it's own and no conscience, it cares not for what is in it's path.
And kinda turn them into ground beef
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.
Did anyone else born around 1993 have a random assortment of 1930s cartoons on a vhs including this one???
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.
The streamlined locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
@@OzPoohProductions shut up
@@Ilkvomit Drat!
@@OzPoohProductions lol 10 months ago dude.Let it go
@@Ilkvomit That's . . . not . . . very . . . nice! *sobs loudly*
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.
More then likely the Conductor and Brakeman would have told the kid off.
@@ZAV1944
Didn't see a caboose on that freight, so unless they're all crammed in the engine there might not have been a conductor and brakeman. Even if there were, little kids have a knack for not getting noticed by busy adults, so they might not have seen him or known anything about it until it was too late.
Back when this was made in 1936, a lot of kids used to get killed picking spilled coal off the tracks to take home for heat and to cook with, the Depression was in full swing after all, and that's how a lot of families made ends meet. The railroads weren't exactly ignorant of the fact, as there were several batches of famous posters imploring people not to send the kids scrounging for coal on the tracks.
She’s drunk, her husband lost his job on Wall Street a few years prior due to the Great Depression, but they were able to scrape enough together to buy a house in her parents’ hometown.
It wasn’t much, as they live next to the railroad tracks, but the kid doesn’t seem to mind.
There’s some head canon.
Well Betty Boop actually his mother I saw it in google
Believe it or not kids used to play in the yard 'unsupervised' while their mothers did housework - otherwise the housework would never have gotten done. They always knew what we had been up to when we came in that evening and we never got into much mischief. We would have gotten serious consequences if we had.
6:05 that blue train’s screech used to scare the hell out of me.
Blue Train is Montana.
@@julyleonard5:31 I loved his line
BEWARE! TAKE CARE!
@@ryanward652 That's what Montana said.
@@julyleonard Heck I remembered him in Casey Jr and Friends
The nostalgia is so real!😊
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 !
Might not want to say your age there
Lucyfire7 I was born in 2016
@@adamajallow7790 don't say her birth
This was a fever dream locked in my subconscious for literal decades until now.
After so long I finally found this old classic 😭
6:49 oh so THAT’S where Cuphead got the number for the Phantom Express....
That was the intention (to be based off of the Fleischer/early Disney cartoons).
@@alexpaumen3937 Gauges: Hello, brat! *laugh evilly* Play safe! Play safe! Hesitate!
Train: I kidnapped you! *laughs evilly* Beware! Take care!
Mountain: You little brat will die forever! *laughs evilly* Better play safe!
@Mr. Will or is it both
NIIIIICE CATCH!!
Those backgrounds though.
5:31 Montana: BEWARE! TAKE CARE!
Goofy ahh face on the train💀
Ironically, after learning the core message to "play safe" when I was maybe 5, this was also the video that got me into my lifelong love of steam engines. lol
Same.
Actually during the big depression, when hobos "riding the rails" were a big problem and railroads employed as a countermeasure guards known to be violent if they caught a hobo or even anyone marauding on a train yard "with no business to be there" as they used to say; they were many cases, actually documented, of children under 16 hitchhiking on cargo trains alone (mostly teens in this case) or in the company of adults, which in the later case may include a marauding father or uncle looking for work who didn't want his kid ending abandoned in an orphanage.
Railroad Employees generally regarded the 'boes with contempt, they were after all trespassing on railroad property.
6:05 and 6:36 were the parts that got me as a kid. 😖
3:23. Look at that. Looks like one of the painters or animators forgot that the train left
The blue engine, the gauges, the crocket tunnel mouth, and the red engine are villains.
@@OzPoohProductions uh... no they aren't. the kid was an idiot and had a bad dream after getting a concussion. its just his conscience scolding him for what he did.
stop spreading false info
@@BlueCollaredK9 Blue Train: *laughs evilly*
Toddler: *screams*
@@OzPoohProductions you just contradicted yourself from another comments section moron...
6:36 “and this is how i met your mother”
My four year old nephew LOVES this cartoon!
The streamline locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
how
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory ...are you asking how a 4 year old enjoys a cartoon? Just want to make this make sense.
@@Sheriiblossom Yes. This one is pretty creepy. The train the kid drives, and the other red one with the head on collison at the end is very creepy looking.
and this one 4:14
Cuphead season 2 referenced this. Totally awesome.
They actually were refrencing a diffirent train seen in a Popeye cartoon, the one in the Popeye cartoon is identical to the Cuphead one. However, you aren't wrong about there being a Play Safe refrence in Cuphead, the Phantom Express shares the same number as the train that almost hits the kid at the end.
That dog ran as fast as a train, even faster. Respect for that dog
4:03 Man, this effect was just beautiful. Really sucks that it died off after this era, with its only resurgence being in Cuphead AFAIK.
That part still makes me feel uneasy 30 years later and I don't know why.
Play safe really did it job at the cost of giving children nightmares.
Right??! 😭
This video is why I have anxiety as an adult
Everybody thinks they have anxiety and everybody loves to point it out 😒
@lackwanna livery productions nah
I had this cartoon on an old VHS tape as a kid, and somehow it never gave me nightmares. Looking back on it now, I'm not sure why. I was the kind of kid who was easily freaked out by stuff most of the time, and yet I was more fascinated by this than scared. Crazy how that works.
Some phenomenal animation here. Just incredible. I love animation and this raily amazed me. Oh, I like puns too. ;-)
Dude I watched this 6 years ago, and I came back, pure nostalgia
I know this little kid was being careless and all that. He’s still just a kid and not fully developed. Most people I would blame are the parents for being negligent or not teaching their kids safety rules.
4:57 4014’s second driver set be like:
Imagine that in the other train was a friend of the boy. They dreamed the same dream and are suprised when they find out that they had the same dream.
That's a great theory
I watched this cartoon in Spanish and I loved it xD, especially the part when the cave says "¡ten cuidado!" I mean, I think that in English is terrifying, but it was completely different in Spanish.
How i can find this in spanish im traying to found spanish version of this video and i can't found it.
Hablo español y está caricatura la vi cuando era una niña y ahora la busco en español y no la encuentro :(
I remember seeing this as a kid and then years later seeing it playing in the background of an episode of MacGyver
Is anyone else wondering where the model train from 5:36 is at now?
Well it’s here on earth and I NEED TO HAVE IT
What a glorious night for me to bring the fright!"
-Head of the Train, Cuphead
The devs actually got the number for the engine in the game from the (real) engine here, at 6:49
@@RyansColoradoRailProductions All train basis?
@@OzPoohProductions no just the engine number
Put That In the Cuphead Wiki
@@AwesomeAudrey2000 steam engine numbers?
All the adults commenting how cool and smart this is.. never had the displeasure of being traumatized by it as a child 🥴
Fun fact some scenes use real models in the background
I remember this so much! This was after this Molly Moo Cow cartoon with Robinson Crusoe and 2 more called Chicken a la Carte and Trolley Ahoy. ❤❤
1:15 PRR K4 #1361 whistle
This cartoon scared the crap out of me when I first saw it as a kid
6:45 watch out for the train!!!
6:05 Montana tries to warn his cousin the red train
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
6:05 Montana 6:12 redmond screams
Now that I realize the two locomotives look alike, the red one to an LMS Coronation Princess Class 6229 Duchess of Hamilton and the blue one to a C&O L1 Streamlined Hudson, an England against an American, what crazy do you think🤔😅🇺🇲🤜🤛🇬🇧🚂🚃🚃🚃.
I came here from a guy named TonyPilot.
The engine that little boy was driving. He was named Montana by that guy for his Casey Jr. And Friends series.
The streamline locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
Lol
Who wanna know who the red guys called?
@@OzPoohProductions how is Montana a villain? he was telling just the kid to be play safe.
@@DolgochProductions Uh, he's the blue streamliner that the kid has been trapped.
4:57 the class a4 mallard breaking the record of fastest steam train ever be like
2:31 The Dog Got Stuck
6:43 the box car still there
The toddler leaves riding on the freight train.
That cartoon scares me when I was a kid
i remember seeing this as a kid and i’m happy to find it now
According to a DeviantArt post, I thought that the blue streamlined tender engine predicted Shooting Star Gordon from The Great Race!
Phantom express from cuphead brought me here!
best boss of the game also took my train of thought here.
@@BlueCollaredK9 Gauges: Hello, brat! *laugh evilly* Play safe! Play safe! Hesitate!
Train: I kidnapped you! *laughs evilly* Beware! Take care!
Mountain: You little brat will die forever! *laughs evilly* Better play safe!
for me it was the sunshine express coach I was on going to and from the airport at Orlando during my Disney holiday last week
POV: you had nightmares of trains with faces
When I was younger I found this on CZcams and would not stop watching I loved ot
Cuphead facing off against the Phantom Express, anybody?
The blue engine, the gauges, the crocket tunnel mouth, and the red engine are villains.
I've thought of this video for years. Thank you for uploading this. ❤
I haven't seen this 1 in years since I was a kid:-)
They should have animate the two trains crashing to each other and blow up like in real life, but this is a kids cartoon so I don’t blame them for this decision.
Also IS THE SIDE RODS TWISTING WHILE MONTANA IS WHEEL SLIPING😳😳😳
6:13 who the hell is driving that red train?
Sense this whole scene with the faced trains i just a dream in the boys head, it doesn't really need to be driven by anyone
I saw this on Donald Presents as one of "The Fabulous Fleischer Folio" segments.
But I'm mighty glad it's just a nightmare to teach us lesson the dog saves him from being run over by real one and licks him a happy ending
Brings me back to my childhood!
It was made in 1936
The cartoon terrified me when I was a child. It still terrifies me.
Good cartoon. Better then the ones today
The streamlined locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
@Montana the Streamliner Sorry! I've said too much.
5:26 “ANDREW TATE”
Dude why did read this? 😭🤣 its the funniest shit ive ever heard...
A few thoughts on this cartoon, #1 did this inspire the Mindy and Buttons cartoon of Animaniacs. #2 The message is to scare kids into playing safe, but seriously I know 1930s were a safer time, but the kid is like 2-3 years old. This cartoon should be remade where the focus is that parents neglectful, and the message should be watch your damn child.
The blue engine, the gauges, the crocket tunnel mouth, and the red engine are villains.
Things were not safer back then. Shit kids got killed all the time.
1:56 my brain when im in fifth grade but my friend tells me this joke and im up all night thinking of whats so funny about it
Back during the peak of the streamline era!!!
Yes
I guess those streamline locomotives are exactly what I can only assume would become the inspiration for Connor and Caitlin on _Thomas and Friends_ .
@@inaciosthirdstudio The blue engine, the gauges, the crooket tunnel mouth, and the red engine are villains.
I don't think so. It was basically in the kid's dream.
@@inaciosthirdstudio Connor and Caitlin on Thomas and Friends
I'm shocked this hasn't been flagged as being for Kids.
I mean, it has its obvious dark themes, as was early-to-mid 20th century cartoon tradition, but that didn't stop other classic cartoons from suffering that dreaded COPPA branding.
I remember my mom showing this to me before because i loved trains and those trains scared the hell out of me.
Always wondered...why the hell would anyone build a house with a picket fence right next to a train track? I know there are some places where trains travel behind houses...but there's usually a pretty big wall blocking it.
Maybe this was normal in the 30s?
You've got both versions available. Be sure to always check...
I live by the message in this video every day of my life.
Came here from Shining Time Station. Never seen the full cartoon before. I like it. The red train screams like Homer Simpson! Lmao! 😆
Blue Train: *screams/whistles*
Red Train: *screams/whistles*
Scare Dares (1991)?
The blue engine’s scream sounds so inhuman, it’s disturbing.
@@OzPoohProductions Blue Train's name is Montana.
@@julyleonard Montana: How was I a villain when I kidnapped the toddler?
A Certified 1930s cartoon train classic
7:36 the moment the dog fuckt up
No the dog moved their tail off the track in time
@@adogeatingapieceofbread9335 i now se mi other coments 😆😅
Remember kids, always play safe and never play in dangerous hazardous places like big trains for example.
The blue engine, the gauges, the crooket tunnel mouth, and the red engine are villains.
I remember seeing a clip from this in a commercial from around the 2000s. I don’t remember what it was for (probably AOL or Yahoo! or something), but it was a dad trying to calm his baby down by showing him stuff online and this is one of the things he showed him. I also know that commercial had the infamous “Baby Kate Cry” stock sound effect in it, which is one of the reasons I do not want to be sent a link to it.
is it me? or the begining of the cartoon theme was the ballad of Casey Jones for few seconds
It is, basically the whole tune was, albeit with a bit of a swing twist courtesy of the studio band.
And that’s why you should play safe children
1:09 Green Goddess whistle
4:26 Montana's Cab Ride
6:36-6:38 When you see your crush for the first time.
@Montana the Streamliner hi there montana
4:15 that’s a creepy Looking new Jersey blue comet
And the red one is called redmond
6:06 The Montana don't have the hands to blow
I didn't know Paramount was around even at this time.
That's right.
Same with Warner Bros.
@@inaciosthirdstudio The streamlined locomotives, the gauges on the train, and the mountains are villains!
@@inaciosthirdstudio And Universal Too 😀.
Along with Columbia and MGM. I’m not too sure about Van Beuren.
The Talking Locomotives 3:48
Who remembers this as a kid
i love when montana goes into a tunnel
Now That is one really fast dog.
Este cortometraje Tiene mas éxito que esa pinche caricatura de Thomas And Friends all engines go de Cartoonino Aunque a mi sí me gusta la versión original de Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends de la era clasica