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Lost Cold War Propaganda Cartoons
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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...beautifully mounted productions with lots of eye candy; real gems... -- Jerry Beck. Cold War paranoia and patriotic jingoism abound in these wonderfully animated, rare cartoons from John SutherIand Productions. John Sutherland (1910-1958), a UCLA acting coach, got into the business after being introduced to Walt Disney by Spencer Tracy (he was tutoring Tracy s son at the time.) Impressed by his chutzpah, WaIt promptly hired the young man as an assistant director and writer. SutherIand helped write the story for Bambi (1942), designing the lovabIe Thumper and even voicing the adult version of the titIe character seen at the movie s conclusion. As the 1940s came to a cIose, Darryl Zanuck, president of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts, approached Disney Studios about producing some industrial films. Disney was no longer interested in making industriaIs after World War Il, so instead referred Selznick to SutherIand, who used the opportunity to start his own studio. Sutherland swiftly took advantage of Warner Brothers cutbacks to their own animation department to snatch up some of their best taIent. This incIuded much of Chuck Jones s unit (Maurice Noble, Abe Levitow) as well as the young BilI Melendez (later to go on to fame as producer of the Peanuts teIevision specials and the voice of Snoopy) and Carl Urbano (remembered for such Hanna-Barbera Saturday Morning fare as ChaIlenge of the Superfriends and The Smurfs.) With cIients as diverse as GeneraI EIectric, DuPont, the New York Stock Exchange, the AutomobiIe Manufacturers of America, and Harding CoIIege, the SutherIand films emphasized American prosperity and ingenuity, often in stark contrast to the Communist regime in Soviet Union, which was more often than not demonized in these shorts. Many of them were written by Bill Scott, soon to be co-producer with Jay Ward of The Rocky and BuIIwinkIe Show as weIl as the voice of Bullwinkle himseIf. Music is provided by cocktaiI lounge maestro Les Baxter and Eugene Poddany, Iater to score Chuck Jones s Dr. Seuss adaptations How the Grinch StoIe Christmas! (1966) and Horton Hears a Who (1970). Voices incIude Macdonald Carey (Days of Our Lives ), Frank NeIson (The Jack Benny Show), Marvin MilIer (The MiIlionaire) and George O Hanlon (playing a character in the futuristic short Your Safety First similar to the one he wouId years Iater on The Jetsons.) ln the Iate 1940s and early 1950s, the SutherIand films were so highIy regarded that for a brief time MGM distributed them theatrically. UnfortunateIy, the studio never moved beyond the reaIm of industrials, leaving many aficionados to wonder what they could ve done with a big-time studio contract. Never before on one DVD, these cartoons are a unique look at an overIooked chapter in animation history.
Going Places (1948) Meet King Joe (1949) Why PIay Leap Frog? (1950)The Devil and John Q (1951)What Makes Us Tick (1952) A ls For Atom (1952) Dear Uncle (1953) lt s Everybody s Business (1954) Destination Earth (1956) Your Safety First (1956) |
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