Old cartoons are usually pretty much awesome- I for one love old
Mickey Mouse shorts,
Silly Symphonies, and the like- I've even grown to like a lot of
the Loony Tunes stuff, which I had an unreasonable distaste for when I was younger (get exposed to enough Disney at an early age and you feel compelled to take sides). It's a wealth of great ideas and (mostly) kid-friendly gags- slapstick with enough clever humor and erudite references to draw in my enormous galumphing adult brain.
For the most part, though, it's kid's stuff. Even when I drag in all the experimental animation I've been exposed to (
Begone Dull Care springs to mind) I can't help but imagine a rather sanitary set of cartoons inhabiting the dawn and expansion of hand-drawn animation in the early 20th century.
If only someone had given me the proper rundown on Betty Boop.
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