The beau ran across a thread about banned WWII cartoons on a Civil War re-enacting site. I didn’t realize there was such a thing as banned cartoons, I just thought they were out of style or old films in vaults because they are no longer popular. I suppose I am somewhat naive about the things that go on in the world, or the semantics of such, at least. I knew many of the old cartoons were considered racist or in poor taste, and figured they were not shown out of respect for others, a voluntary thing to pull them. He showed me the link and I just looked at a couple before moving on. The beau watches South Park and Futurama, so I do realize many cartoons are just for adults. Not totally living under a rock, but my TV taste is more Sci-Fi, Discovery, History and HGTV. I can’t take the incessant noise of cartoons.
Although some cartoons may be “banned” from TV they are still available, and these films document different periods of history, albeit offensive to many, it is still history, though most war-related cartoons are of little interest to me. It is a good thing political correctness came along so people could learn to respect one another a bit more and not have the more distasteful cartoons in their face. I cannot imagine allowing my children to have watched any of the banned cartoons, they only watched Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers-type programming, rarely cartoons without my watching with them. We watched some cartoon videos together rather than cartoons, but that was the 80’s, not the 40’s and 50’s. That’s a whole other world ago. I also don’t hang out at Youtube but for a search here and there that takes me to the site. Like the Andy Panda and Andy Pandy search I did the other day. If it shows up in my anagrams I look it up.
I do learn something new every day.
I went back to the site and did a search for 1950s cartoons, just for the heck of it. This caught my eye:
INTERRUPTION IN THE TRAIN OF THOUGHT! BIG TIME.
I looked the song, the words to it on Wikipedia. Its official title was “Gwine to Run All Night“, and is also known as “De Camptown Races” by Stephen Foster. At this point in the blog entry I went into real time and though I had stopped at the part of the film where the synthesizer started to play and took a screen shot (the timer showed 4:04) something made me go on in the film.
The TV is on in the same room so I wasn’t listening too hard, until I came to the part of the film where the falcon missle was being shown and I realized I was now writing as things happened and waiting for something to happen. I had already written “I had to stop when I got to the future synthesizer playing the “camptown races/camptown ladies” song” and taken a screen shot, so I was “aware”. I decided to listen further along and noticed something happened when they were talking about the Hughes falcon missle, on the (ATOMIC TV ” THE FUTURE IN 1950″ RARE) film link. I heard the narrator say the missle was ”a guided missle with a brain capable of outwitting…” and then camptown races song started playing on the synthesizer again in the film. At that point I took a couple more screen shots because of the unusual editing on the film.
One screen shot was taken as they were saying it was “capable of outwitting…”
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