"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 ..."
"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 ..."