Cartoon Wars

The history of cartoons is one fraught with conflict and drama – as fledgling studios vie for power, influence, and money to be the master of this new and lucrative market.

Betty Boop was Americas favorite “flapper” in the 1930s and remains very popular to this day.

The Fleischer Studios were the first to create true three-color Technicolor animations, and the best of the era from any studio were Max Fleischer’s Superman.

In Part One we will look at how animation quietly exposed theater audiences to the possibility of war.

On the Homefront the public needed to be reassured, the government commissioned animation to explain various parts of the war to the public.

As World War Two began to wind down, the U.S. Government was faced with the unprecedented situation of being the only industrialized country on earth not ravaged by war.