I uncovered a stash of all video cassettes the other day that had found their way under our house from the shed at Mum's. Some of them, like Veggie Tales, are great. Others are a little hair-raising...old 1930s cartoons that are racist, sexist, condescending and some are downright frightening and most are just plain WRONG. My daughter was in tears in two of them!
There are some really dark and quite disturbing themes in these 'toons. Little Audrey in "Song of the Birds" is one. Who the hell lets a preschooler run around with a loaded shotgun??!! My daughter was absolutely distraught watching this - when the bird died she was almost sobbing. Had to sit with her until the end for him to come back to life and completely mess up her psyche...Classic cartoons blog has some great stills from the cartoon (better quality images than my video copy!). Poor little boidy...
Aud's shoots the boid...
Mummy boid weeps over her wittle boidy...
The funeral - even the moon weeps...
Audrey smashes her gun and offers ACME style seed after the baby boidy comes back to life...
On that note (and I don't know why this would be linked to the Maaaatt Daaaamon clip, but anyhow)...(Maaatt Daaamon...hehehe)...here is an early advertisement for Jello. I say, speaking of racism, let's get the creators of Tellytubbies up here to explain themselves!
What the hell? Shocking advert for face cream.
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