Marks Survey\/pop quiz the other day and the follow up post that called us all Savages got me thinking about old cartoons. When I started thinking about them I started looking for them on the interwebs.<\/p>\n
I found the entire private SNAFU Army training series from WW2. If you have never see it its worth the time to watch. I had seen them before and knew some of the history behind them. Theodore Geisel later to be know as Dr. Seuss was in charge of story and animation on most of them. His influence in the early episodes can be seen in the rhymes and art work. Mel Blanc did most of the voices.<\/p>\n
There were at least two episodes that never got shown, the last was a case of art hitting a little to close to reality. The story was about going home and not talking about what you had done or seen, they used the existence of a fictional super bomb or secret weapon as an example. This episode was created before all but a very few knew of the the Atomic bomb.<\/p>\n
My favorite episode Booby Trap, keeping in mind that these cartoons were made for adult men that episode would be considered almost pornographic by 1940 standards. I get great joy out of knowing that Dr. Seuss was the master and creator of the nipple slip and the Technical Fairy 1st Class.<\/p>\n
I cant write about WW2 cartoons with out mentioning Warner Brothers, MGM, Disney and Fleischer Studios. Buggs Bunny, Donald Duck and Popeye were all after the Axis.<\/p>\n
Most of the cartoons from that time have been archived. They are no longer politically correct and will more than likely never be shown on a big screen again.<\/p>\n
The Video Below is about 2 hours long, its all of the SNAFU cartoons. The others can be found by looking for Banned WW2 Caatoons<\/a> on You Tube<\/p>\n