"In the first four years of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1961-64), Hollywood did not dramatize the current military conflict but rather romanticized earlier ones. Cartoons reflected only previous trends in U.S. culture, and animators comically but patriotically remembered the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and both World Wars. In the early years of military escalation in Vietnam, Hollywood was simply not ready to illustrate Am ..."
"As a wildly popular local dance show, Soul Train provided a venue for Chicago's soul singers and political activists and gave African American teenagers their first significant chance to see and identify with their peers on television. The subsequent national series garnered even more popularity, establishing producer and host Don Cornelius as one of the most successful pioneers of African American television production. This work discu ..."
"When identifying himself to Woody through song, the hippie brags about avoiding
both work and responsibility. In addition, the film presents a generation gap and
sides ... for the feature film The Aristocats (1970). In contrast, Ward Kimball
capitalized on the success of It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969) by producing and
directing the short film Dad, Can IBorrow the Car (1970) and the television series
The Mouse Factory in a similar p ..."
The Colored Cartoon Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907-1954 by Christopher P. Lehman Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Massachusetts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-613-2, ISBN: 1-55849-613-0
"From the introduction of animated film in the early 1900s to the 1950s, ethnic humor was a staple of American-made cartoons. Yet as Christopher Lehman shows in this revealing study, the depiction of African Americans in particular became so inextricably linked to the cartoon medium as to influence its evolution through those five decades. He argues that what is in many ways most distinctive about American animation reflects white animat ..."