Flights of Fancy (Part 25): More Airwave Air Traffic, and Flight in a New “Format”
Hanna Barbera, Format Films, King Features and other independent animation studios had pretty high flying characters during the 1960s.
Hanna Barbera, Format Films, King Features and other independent animation studios had pretty high flying characters during the 1960s.
Writing about aviation in the television era is, to say the least, a bit daunting. (It may require that I fly in on a Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless.) By this…
Today, we’ll explore aviation in the last round of regular series theatrical cartoons – well past the Golden Age.
More aviation material today from the waning days of the theatrical cartoon.
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.
As the 50’s continued, visions of aviation in animation remained relatively peaceful – until a passenger named Magoo purchased a ticket.
A superior batch of material presents itself this week, including several classic flying fools, and an array of animation superstars.
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.
We’ll cover more titles than usual this week, due to several containing only rather short sequences of direct relevance to these articles.
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.