Comments | equusmaximus: Peace on Earth

equusmaximus

Peace on Earth - 1939

Dec 16, 2009 10:08

This was originally posted a couple of months ago in another LJ community, but I felt it was appropriate at this time to repost it here. Thanks to skippyfox for the original posting. The following are his comments, not mine; They express everything perfectly, so why reword it?

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thrashbear December 17 2009, 07:26:47 UTC

What a dichotomy between the dark violence and the uber-cute.

I vaguely remember seeing this when I was as little as those baby squirrels, but I was more interested in the cartoon rather than the story behind it.

Funny the timing behind it, since WWII was just getting started in Europe, and we were just a couple of years away from getting into it ourselves. Historically curious, indeed.

kevinbunny December 17 2009, 08:43:38 UTC

Yeah, I've seen this film before. It's a great cartoon, and well-deserving of the title of 'classic'.

Sadly, there's no WAY you could make something like this today. It would be a race to see who would murder you in your sleep first; the anti-violence groups, or the anti-religious groups. I've pointed it out to folks who say there's too much violence on TV now, as proof that their grandparents did just fine with cartoons depicting soldiers dying in mud-filled trenches.. Kids need to learn that violence leads to gruesome, nasty death.

chipuni December 17 2009, 17:16:47 UTC

Sadly, there's no WAY you could make something like this today.

I strongly disagree.

Even if the major studios wouldn't touch it ("How could we tie it into marketing?"), it's easier and much cheaper than it's ever been for small studios to create animation.

equusmaximus December 17 2009, 19:35:47 UTC

True, but the problem seems to be that many of the small studios are going for more and more computer-generated animation. Half of the cartoons you see today seem to have been made using FLASH. The pen-and-ink style of animation is pretty much limited to large studios who have the budget for that kind of production.

I guess that's part of why I love those old cartoons so much. :)

chipuni December 17 2009, 17:15:18 UTC

Peace on earth, good will toward all.

Beautiful cartoon.