The Cobweb Hotel: A quick look at one of the creepiest cartoons ever made It’s such a myth that the early days of cinema were mild, tame and restrained. Certainly the advent of the dreaded Production Code bullied feature films into restraint but even then, filmmakers had to be creative when dealing with unsavory or explicit and suggestive subject matter, a fact that very often made the movies ever dirtier. But cartoons of the 1920s to late 1930s weren’t as slave to censorship and as such can often be relied upon to be quite bizarre and boundary pushing.