Flights of Fancy (Part 23): Off Into the Sunset
Today, we’ll explore aviation in the last round of regular series theatrical cartoons – well past the Golden Age.
Category Archives: Animation Trails
Flights of Fancy (Part 22): Here, There, In the Air
More aviation material today from the waning days of the theatrical cartoon.
Flights of Fancy (Part 21): More “Fly-by” Nights
A lot of shorter aviation gags are featured today, with only one film chiefly devoted to the subject, as we wing our way through the mid-1950’s.
Flights of Fancy (Part 20): Flying Blind
As the 50’s continued, visions of aviation in animation remained relatively peaceful – until a passenger named Magoo purchased a ticket.
Flights of Fancy (Part 19): Supersonic Silliness
A superior batch of material presents itself this week, including several classic flying fools, and an array of animation superstars.
Flights of Fancy (Part 18): “Up” To Their Old Tricks
Finishing the ‘40’s and into the 1950’s, as the early years of the new decade provide a mix of small and large parts for airplanes.
Flights of Fancy (Part 17) – Disturbing the Peace
We’ll cover more titles than usual this week, due to several containing only rather short sequences of direct relevance to these articles.
Flights of Fancy (Part 16): Beyond the Blue Horizon is a Rising Sun
A mixed bag for this wrap-up of the war years, still providing some education to the troops, but beginning to serve up laughs again for the civilian audience.
Flights of Fancy (Part 15): Hazardous Hops and Happy Hopes
The themes in animation during this period take the battle to the enemy rather than holding territorial lines of defense.
Flights of Fancy (Part 14): Air Cover and Cover-Ups
Wrapping up 1943 and moving into 1944, we find more “Situation Normal” for our airborne toons.
