Articles on Animation &Disney &Fleischer 07 Dec 2010 09:19 am
Life after Pearl Harbor
- Today marks the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This was not only a disastrous day for our country, and whatever affects our country affects the animation studios equally.
The December 8, 1941 issue of LIFE Magazine included this display of DUMBO stills. A day after the bombing, I kind of suspect no one was into noticing the stills. George MacArthur was on the magazine’s cover – not intentionally bringing War into the issue, but accidentally doing it.
Fleischer’s Hoppity Goes To Town had the same sad problem. It opened the week after Pearl Harbor and sank as quickly as the Hawaiian Fleet. The film was finally reviewed in the NY Times in February 1942 (as can be read below) but there wasn’t much to save it at the box office.
Here’s a promotion that ran in the NYTimes in May of 1941,
six months before the film would be released to a deadened market.
The review pulled from a page of other reviews.
on 08 Dec 2010 at 1:12 am 1.Eric Noble said …
Very interesting. People still judge animation by how smooth it is, and not how it expresses character. Very nice post. I shall have to watch these films.
on 08 Dec 2010 at 2:34 pm 2.Doug said …
Thanks for commemorating the day with this post. Its surprising to me how each year this event seems to fade. I said to my wife last night, “I didn’t hear one story about Pearl Harbor today, but there is this one site that I go to everyday …..”.
An interesting post as always Mr Sporn.
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