This wittle pink ghost is almost too adorable for Halloween.
Boo… This wittle tiny ghost is way too cute to be spooky, right?! Happy early Halloween countdown!
The little pink apparition comes from the 1939 Walter Lantz animated short A Haunting We Will Go, directed by Burt Gillett. And once this pint-size ghost floats into the picture, the whole thing becomes less haunted-house terror and more vintage cartoon mischief.
A Haunting We Will Go — 1939
Vintage Halloween animation with one very cute little ghost.
Walter Lantz’s early Technicolor short mixes haunted-house gags, ghostly mischief and one tiny pink scene-stealer.
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A Tiny Ghost From a Big Moment in Walter Lantz Animation
A Haunting We Will Go was released in 1939 by Walter Lantz Productions through Universal. Gillett directed, Kin Platt and Gil Burton received story credit, Fred Kopietz and Lester Kline handled animation, and Frank Marsales supplied the music.
The short is also a neat little animation-history marker: it is widely documented as the first Walter Lantz cartoon made in three-strip Technicolor. From there, the studio’s theatrical cartoons would continue in color.
Cute Ghost, Complicated Cartoon History
The story follows Lil’ Eightball, who insists he is not afraid of ghosts before being carried off into a haunted-mill world full of them. The little pink ghost is the one who gets the whole supernatural detour moving.
It is also worth acknowledging that Lil’ Eightball was designed as a racial caricature of a Black child, imagery that is offensive by today’s standards and part of the era’s ugly animation history. That context does not erase the craftsmanship or the strange little charms that survive in the short, but it does belong beside them when we revisit the work now.
And yes, we are still completely charmed by that tiny pink ghost. The rounded little design, floating movements and complete lack of actual menace make it feel like somebody accidentally sent the cutest possible spirit to do a grown ghost’s job.
Consider this one an early Halloween check-in from the INYIM vault of oddities: nearly nine decades later, some cartoon ghosts still know exactly how to make an entrance.
Watch the Tiny Ghost From 1939’s “A Haunting We Will Go”
Our Halloween clip spotlights the little pink ghost from Burt Gillett’s 1939 Walter Lantz short.
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Sources: U.S. Copyright Office motion-picture catalog; Internet Animation Database.
