Frankly, My Dear – small dead animals

Frankly, My Dear is a new category here at SDA. Inspired by the 1939 movie Gone With The Wind, which if subjected to the same standards as classic cartoons, would be unavailable for viewing today.
Inki And The Lion

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Just a couple of nits.
Inky the mynah bird? Inki’s the stereotypical jungle picaninny.
Double clicking on the small screen will take one to You Tube, no link necessary.
Full of moral lessons where none was intended. Moral of this thread…the emperor has no clothes.
Very interesting Kate. You make a very bold statement with this one. Well done, very well done. I’m still digesting it all, and I am sure more learned ones then me can expand on your message, but I’m not sure that it needs any expanding.

Adam T, I believe that bit of music is “The Hebrides Overture” by Mendelssohn. It was originally inspired by the composer’s visit to Fingal’s Cave in Scotland.

Bill Stewart doing the analysis. SDA readers represented by Cleese according to Bill.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sw8ZL_gcTSM

I like when Rhett says “….I don’t give a damn!”…

Manny, doofus, Inky is the bird. Google it, you git.

Handcrafted Quality. Difficult to find these days. The artwork, the music, the storyline.

Gee, phantom, my google says otherwise. Is the google you use from the same alternate universe in which YOU received a Masters degree?

DrD: re the classical music used in Looney Toons: Aside from the fact that someone was quoted as saying “It’s the best music,” its use probably saved the company gazillions. They didn’t have to pay for an original composition and, I suspect, most of this music was in “the public domain,” which meant no, or next to no, royalties had to be paid out.
Win-win for everyone, except the composers’ descendents: The ‘toon company got the music cheap and kids learned some good, classical music by osmosis.

Growing up in the 1950s a big treat was going to town on a Saturday night to the movies.
Back then a movie experience always included three basic elements: A classic cartoon as pointed out here, a “News of the Day” newsreel, and finally the main feature.
This is a sample of some newsreels of that era. (remember this was several years before we had television)
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=4DdsQIYmMpE rel=”nofollow”
00:00 The Red Menace
03:20 Rocket Reaches 67 miles into Space (with pictures)
09:50 Crisis in Iran
11:30 Big Auto Crackup
21:00 Queen Elizabeth II
23:00 The B-52 takes flight
But hey, no global warming crisis anywhere in sight!

Kate, I have a substantial collection of “banned” WB toons, including a lot of the WWII propaganda and troop training ones.
Email me if you’d like copies of them. I’m in Saskatoon.

The key point is that, as you allude to, this isn’t about race, class, gender, or any of that stuff; all classic cartoons are about life’s lessons. And in this case, the lesson is, to all humans: don’t engage lions without due diligence….yada yada yada, blah blather blah….
And Voice of Fire is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.

That was good — that’s all folks!

here is a famous inky , and a not so famous racist statement made by a lieberal.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/05/06/mark-allegations050506.html

It would be worth waiting for to watch a lefty’s head explode after comparing the Disney version of “The Jungle Book” to Kipling’s.

The bird is the myna bird. Inki is the ‘cartoon Negro’ and there are so many them running around the US these days that they may get one for president.

Thanks, Johann, the Magical Maestro is brilliant.

Dammit, that was one good cartoon! The little Negro boy reminded me of my grandson, although his hair is unlike that in the clip. Perhaps more like my grandaughter who now keeps her hair up like that.
As a kid, I remember that cartoon and the message it brought to us kids.
Yes, there is a moral to the story, for everyone.

And what kid among us did not try to walk like the myna bird.
Loved those old cartoons.

Well, it seems manny is correct that Inki is -not- the minah bird. Whatever.
How come you don’t complain about the stereotypical Scotsman manny? Hmmmn?
I reiterate by call of bullsh-t upon your convenient objections sir.

Who’s complaining? I’m merely pointing out the small dead lickspittle mentality that goes with the risible, puffed up, self-important vanity in some of the comments.

My risible, puffed up, self-important vanity shtick is working?
I’ll tell ya, I never thought I’d make it so big in show business.
Overture, curtains, lights,
This is it, the night of nights
No more rehearsing and nursing a part
We know every part by heart
Overture, curtains, lights
This is it, you’ll hit the heights
And oh what heights we’ll hit
On with the show this is it
Tonight what heights we’ll hit
On with the show this is it
Here’s the ’65 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahStt2VFhf8

Try moving out of undergrad anthropology and the leftist sanctimonious view of ‘power’.
Posted by: ET at April 13, 2008 10:48 AM
LOL!! In one of my undergrad degrees obtained from the U of S, many, many years ago, I had a major in anthropology. Your take on this is right bang on. Big, big source of my leftist indoctrination and big, big source of the wrenching pain y soul endured when I had to face how deeply and thoroughly I had been indoctrinated. The real world is a much better teacher.

On the topic of cartoons, I somewhat resent “The Raccoons” for brainwashing me with leftist/green values at an early age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raccoons
Mind you my realization that the U of S was part of that racket came when I heard a friend’s med school interview started going South the moment he insinuated that he thought dual-tier health care wouldn’t mean the end of the world.

K S,
If you want a job with any level of government … or get into a medical, etc school … in the interview ask yourself “What would Lucy say?”. You can’t knock success.

On the other hand, Ural, if you want get into engineering,
you have to ask yourself, What Would Carol Say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFRjs17rM8o