Rubber Hose Animation

It's hard to get anyone to watch a live-action film from a hundred years ago because they are black and white and silent. But animated cartoons? They are still hilarious a hundred years later. Line drawings hold up better over time, and dialogue isn't necessary when the visuals are funny. Cartoons utilized funny scenarios that can't possibly happen in real life. The mayhem included animated body parts stretching like rubber hoses. This rubber hose animation made cartoons big hits in the 1920s, and we still watch them today. 

Rubber hose animation enlivened cartoons of the 1920s and '30s, then Disney came along with color and dialogue and realism and superseded the bizarre slapstick of rubber hose animation. More's the pity, but we still have those old cartoons.