You didn't really do anything with the theme, the animation (aside from being in greyscale and having a fake film grain effect rendered over top) doesn't resemble animation from the 1920's at all.

It even uses elements (tweens) that explicitly would not have been possible within the era.

And that could possibly have been forgiven if the actual animation was any good, but quite frankly it isn't. There's no easing, the actions are all ridiculously slow and yet it's somehow still confusing as to what's going on.

And to top it all off, it doesn't even have a proper ending. It just stops abruptly which no indication that it's supposed to be the end of the animation whatsoever.

Hahaha, this is really cute!

Reminds me a lot of very old-school Newgrounds content. The timing is all lightning fast and the staging makes it very hard to see what's going on. That coupled with a lack of any real easing on the motions makes it very hard to follow what's going on.

A little more work on your easing and your timing and you'd have something incredibly well made here though!

Why would you submit this to the portal?