In a message dated 11/10/2002 1:16:04 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Cartoons from the sixties and seventies are cheap, badly drawn, with poor plotlines. Compare them to cartoons from a decade earlier when Looney Toons was supreme. Looney Toons had vastly superior art and backgrounds, music, plots, etc. The sixties broght on a dark ages for animation that lasted (in america) in the eighties. Looney toons were aimed at adults, and not children. Adults and Children love Looney Tunes. Children also seem to love cartoon networks saturday night adult swim action block. >> But you are comparing cream pies to seltzer bottles. [Sorry, apples and oranges just didn't seem appropriate.] If you stick only to theatrical cartoons, and leave out the made for TV cartoons, then you leave out a lot of the cheap, badly drawn, and with poor plotline productions. And always the exceptions. For TV: Roger Ramjet was very limited animation, but with adult level humor thrown in. For theater: Can't get more limited animation than The Dot and the Line. The cartoons in theaters that actually got booed were the last Walter Lantz made. Endless cannon after cannon after cannon. Damn if we only could have had Tex Avery directing a script by Mark Evanier with Carl W. Stalling's renditions of music by Raymond Scott. What a Powerhouse that would be. William Taylor ---------------------- You're a Sap Mr. Jap regularly ran on 1960s kid's TV programs. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
