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.
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.
The themes in animation during this period take the battle to the enemy rather than holding territorial lines of defense.
Wrapping up 1943 and moving into 1944, we find more “Situation Normal” for our airborne toons.
We progress further into 1942, the planes kept rolling out of the factories and into the air, inspiring animators and providing our continued focus for this series.
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.
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.