starry messenger

Testes look good.

That's great Starry, I'm a sucker for vintage animation. So many of those cartoons, even in their original context, depended upon working class sensibilities. As did much of the cinema and I guess other art forms of the 30's and early 40's. And then something happened....

Originally Posted by blindpig

That's great Starry, I'm a sucker for vintage animation. So many of those cartoons, even in their original context, depended upon working class sensibilities. As did much of the cinema and I guess other art forms of the 30's and early 40's. And then something happened....

I'm a sucker for it too. You can tell that the guy who made it had a lot of material to draw on putting it together. I don't know what happened after that. Disney's monopoly probably contributed, and I guess the other studios felt the pressure to put out money-making crap to compete. I think the ones my brother and I grew up on in the '70's were mainly created to sell lunchboxes and cereal.

Well, there was the Red Scare, and old Walt was a virulent anti-communist. You might recall that he denied Nikita Krushchev admittance to Disneyland when he visited in the early 60's, what a dickhead. And as you say, bidness pressure, maximizing profit became overwhelming.

I think the lame-ification of cartoons started in the 50's, my preferred childhood fodder was pretty lame, didn't really appreciate the old stuff until my teens.