Wolf Blitzer Would Not Approve

Blake wrote a great comment back here on my Red Hot Riding Hood/Tex Avery post. This Tex Avery cartoon is from the same era, but is an example of a raw & visceral response to a common enemy.

The cartoon was nominated but lost out in the Oscars to a Donald Duck cartoon, Der Fuehrer's Face. These were all from a time when moral distinctions were more clearly and more easily drawn.

 The Wiki page on Blitz Wolf

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Still my favorite Tex Avery cartoon: "Rock-A-Bye-Bear" (1952):

 

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Wolf Blitzer Would Not Approve

The Tex Avery cartoon "Blitz Wolf" is from an era when Americans recognized a common enemy and were not afraid to name it.

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The cartoon was nominated but lost out in the Oscars to a Donald Duck cartoon, Der Fuehrer's Face. These were all from a time when moral distinctions were more clearly and more easily drawn.

 The Wiki page on Blitz Wolf

Saturday Morning Cartoons

I learned about Tex Avery by accident. Several years ago, impelled by memory alone and enabled by Google, I arrived at his name. Never mind that his name was already in plain sight of practically everyone who laughed at cartoons starting in the 1940's.

Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) was one of his earliest efforts, and one so ahead of its time that few appreciate its prescience. Lindsay Ellis pretty much sums up the cartoon's lasting influence as well as its "reverse cautionary tale" meaning and that "no means no":

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Oh Henry!

Here's to the good ol' days when Mexico and El Norte saw more eye to eye and Tex Avery was animating Frito Lay characters.

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