STRANGE TOONS: YOU AUTO LAY AN EGG

Another new feature here at Monsters and Rockets. In Strange Toons, we'll showcase some of the weirdest and wildest animated shorts you'll ever see.

You Auto Lay an Egg (AKA It's a Bird) is a truly stunning mix of live-action and stop-motion from 1930. A disturbing little bird-creature eats a lot of metal and then lays an egg that hatches a full-size car, while an amazed yokel wearing lipstick observes. Bear in mind as you watch that this was decades before CGI effects. That's an entire, real car that hatches from that egg. You could watch this clip 3o times, and it would never stop being amazing (and creepy.)

For some reason the only clips I can find online are excerpts, but this one features approximately 90 percent of the film and that should be more than enough. (The short is not available on DVD, but is available on the VHS tape pictured above.)



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