Well, it really does not look like what we would call anime. The style looks like the cartoons being produced in the US at the time. The poster in his notes cites a Fleischer Brothers influence. I guess the Fleischer studio style would fit Japanese folk culture.



Here's another. I think I may have posted this here once before. It's a silent film. Though Hollywood was producing sound films in 1929, the rest of the world was a few years behind.