Flights of Fancy (Part 7): The Calm Before the Storm
With audiences turning more attention to newsreels to keep track of the goings on across the globe, animated parodies of newsreels also developed as likely places to find items on aviation.
With audiences turning more attention to newsreels to keep track of the goings on across the globe, animated parodies of newsreels also developed as likely places to find items on aviation.
We’ll wrap up the 1930’s this week, with another barrage of cartoons about flight, both for fun and for profit.
Another batch of aerial toons from the classic thirties.
Today’s batch of titles from the mid 1930‘s take up the subject of flying on a sometimes smaller scale – several literally scaling down the action to the world of toys.
Welcome back to lecture number two in our introductory-level course on ‘30’s Toon Education 101′. Last week got us past orientation, and this week we knuckle down for more serious study,
Ending the 30’s and into the 40’s, we find numerous additional animated outings for the sand and surf crowd.
Proceeding deeper into the 1930’s, we continue to encounter the occasional visit to a savage cannibal island, and even more retellings of Robinson Crusoe.
Snap on those headbands, don your athletic shorts and best running shoes, and get set for some energetic roadwork down our latest animation trail.
This week’s fare will thus present the flip-side of the immortal question, “To eat or not to eat”.
There were only a dozen Looney Tunes cartoons produced this season… and some of those were now released in Technicolor.