Vintage view: Animation celluloid
Remember that first tense drama that made you shout out loud as a young child (and that was not your big brother biting the nose off your Barbie), chances are you were stirred up by a cartoon.
Mel Blanc’s voicing for the lean, outrageous scripts of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies created sheer magic bristling with pointy adult innuendo. Then there were the feature films — Disney’s Fantasia (1940) still glorious in its breadth of surreal creativity. The shock of Bambi’s mother’s death (1940) was an emotional drop-kick to the heart.
