Posted on 12/13/2014 1:19:21 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant
There is a super deal on a great Christmas gift for kids. Looney Tunes Golden Collection. It is 350 cartoons (48 hours). Today only, it is $48. It has been $130 lately, and Amazon just made it the Deal of the Day. This is not a bootleg cheapie collection. This is quality. I do not think you can find a better Christmas gift for a kid, and this price is outstanding.
(Excerpt) Read more at amazon.com ...
http://www.amazon.com/Looney-Tunes-Golden-Collection-6-Pack/dp/B005NFJAQC
Most of us grew up watching these cartoons and can appreciate the value. You may not be aware, but there are no longer any Saturday morning cartoons on the main TV networks, and children's TV is a wasteland. Kids today will treasure a collection like this one.
I had purchased something like this a few years back - for long trips to the beach - the kids love them....plus Tom & Jerry cartoons - the old ones with Mammy in them...I have the WW II collection as well with Bugs Bunny making fun of Hitler and Tojo - and the one with the gremlin in it...it’s what I watched in the 70’s growing up...
WOW!!! I am shocked that looney tunes are even legal in today’s uber-PC society.
I remember Comando Daffy asking for scrap metal and kicking hitler in the ass. I remember Bugs outsmarting African savages.
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The Biggest Looney Tunes Compilation: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUCO1hjzb9k
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Skimming through the video, it looks like these are mostly from the 1930s. Some are very un-PC.
Those cartoons were for public consumption. Some people today call it "war propaganda" but I think they are great.
My dad told me about the WB “training” cartoons made for the DOD that he and other GI’s watched during basic training and while overseas during WWII. These were mostly the Private SNAFU films that were not shown at home but only to the GI’s. Funny and entertaining, they were also educational.
But he also told me about one he saw in basic training featuring Bugs Bunny that was all about the dangers of contracting “the clap” (VD) from local “good time girls” (prostitutes) overseas. My dad didn’t tell me, his daughter all the specifics of the cartoon except to say Bugs Bunny used some very “salty” and very direct language to describe what might happen to a GI’s most treasured piece of “equipment” if he were to “put in the wrong place”; “keep your powder and your wick dry boys”, if you catch my drift. LOL! I’ve never been able to find it on You Tube or anywhere else. I wonder if any copies still exist or if any WWII vets here might remember it.
Private SNAFU: Booby Traps 1944 US Army Training Film Cartoon, Mel Blanc, Bob Clampett
Private Snafu in "Censored.", 1944
We bought this a few years before we had kids, lol!
Wow, I didn’t know this!
Heck, even the TITLE would be BANNED today. “Looney” would be deemed insensitive to all the ADHD, OCD, ODD, NPD, Bipolar, Aspergers, and on and on and on.
That would add up quickly. I do a lot of my shopping on Amazon Prime. Great deals, no tax (yet) and mostly no shipping charges.
Bookmark.
Bookmark also.
Most kids will only watch what their peers watch. For most people, history (and pop culture) starts the day they are born. It took me decades to appreciate music or movies made before I was born. Good luck getting the kids to sit still for cartoons like this or enjoying them.
You won’t see those releases and the ones that are are highly edited to remove perceived racist scenes and “violence”. Just watch the reruns on Nickolodian station to see what they’ve done to them.
YAY! Ordered! Had put it on my wish list, but at over $100 wasn’t in a hurry to get it. Between today’s discount and $30 in Amazon CC credits and a $1 credit for opting for “no hurry” shipping, it came out to under $20!
Thanks for letting FR know!
These discs do start playing with a “some of the content is racist or otherwise objectionable; editing this out would be worse than showing what was historically acceptable at the time” warning ... though yes I have noticed a couple abrupt edits where I’m sure there was some really objectionable content. Of course, Nick would be obligated to edit more heavily for public broadcast than edits for a complete historical collection.
I’m sure that liberals would get their knickers in a twist watching these cartoons with their violence and sometimes racial overtones (especially the WW-II era cartoons), but my generation seemed to do OK watching them.
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