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
Bugs bunny did opera.
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
Everything I know about classical music I learned from watching Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
Great article! We can’t forget comic books, In my day everyone could read pretty well by 4 because of Comic Books.
They honed the wit of two generations with quips and sight gags such as, and I quote: “ I tot I taw a puddy tat! I’d did! I did taw a puddy tat!”
I feel so fortunate to have grown up with these cartoons. Early shorts of flowers growing set to a catchy tune, the Bugs Bunny cartoons, Fantasia. Daffy duck and the Taz mania devil that could n I nly be soothed by music..hahaha...and Bugs always won. There were US vs. Russia aspects (Bruno, the stupid Russian bear in the circus is a favorite) as well as WWII references in the older ones. Just a better quality overall...and funny as heck.
You won’t get this from the likes of paw patrol..while some had a good vs. Bad aspect in them, they strike me more as coaching socially acceptable behavior. The kids aren’t laughing at these cartoons the way we did Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck..
Cartoons are also a great way to learn basics of a foreign language.
Simple sentence structure, pictures to help, situational context etc . . .
“Kindersprache” makes for simple translations.
AND if you’ve seen the same episode in English, you’re miles ahead already.
May not be a “classic” but I can still recite those Multiplication Rock songs rolling around in my head.
Wasn’t that supposed to be the original “Gift of Television”, a tool to educate the world?
Guess generations have missed that episode.
Annie...would you like some cheese with that WHINE?
Grow the F*** up, people. I’ll bet she’s one of those who objected to the “Road Runner” because “Wylie Coyote” was being “abused”.
Bookmarked!
Great post! But I think today’s generation of kiddies’ parents would be offended at the ersatz violence and display of guns, etc. Public education failed the kids of the 70’s and 80’s, and we are now saddled with a generation of dunces and snowflakes.