Posted on 07/23/2017 2:02:30 AM PDT by iowamark
Cartoons from the fifties were my first exposure to classical music, and I couldn’t get enough of it!
It’s true.
Kill the wabbit
“I found my birth certificate and it says I’m four!”
-Heathcliff “Dough Ray Me-ow”
Who wanna listen to sheet made by ol day-ed white folk anyways? We need mo cultural duhversity.
Bookmark this. Biggest collection of Warner Bros and other classic cartoons I’ve come across =>
https://www.youtube.com/user/8thManDVDcom/
I agree. Thanks for the reminder to play videos these at home with my kids.
JoMa
> Kill the wabbit
...with my mighty sword and helmet, sword and helmet.
Bugs bunny did opera.
Kill the wabbit.. my personal fav.
I also love the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons.
Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. See, nuttin’ up my sleeve....PRESTO!
:-)
JoMa
When I tell millenials that one of the most famous cartoons of my childhood was Mighty Mouse, which was sung opera with classical music, they cannot believe it.
We have raised the most culturally ignorant generation.
And will pay for it as we lose our culture.
The homeschoolers once gave me hope.
But many homeschooled and conservative Christians join the military and some of our brightest and most creative are being killed for nothing or marginalized in the military
I've started a loose leaf book of about a hundred articles I've printed out now, of their quick reads and I look forward to winter re-reading.
Yes, those old Bugs Bunny cartoons were very educational. Today thousands of adults of my generation know for instance to NEVER look down the barrel of a loaded shotgun and NEVER blow out a birthday cake that has dynamite as candles.
Not to mention that there hasn’t been a shopping giant named Acme built.
Everything I know about classical music I learned from watching Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
Remember also the “Classic Comics” line, which was all the great works of literature condensed to their plot line and illustrated ala Superman. They were great, everybody read them...in fact, I recall a teacher assigning us some great (but boring) work to read and telling us that she didn’t want to find out that we had only read the “Classic Comics” version!
I suspect there were many works that were only read in that version. However, you would end up knowing the plot and recognizing any references to it in later life, so even reading just the comics added to your common knowledge and ability to express our intellectual heritage.
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