It's funny but when I was a kid there wasn't a hyuuuge body of film and TV entertainment available because it hadn't been filmed yet so I grew up familiar with the stuff my parents watched when TV first came out. I saw the movies they watched and heard the music they and their parents listened to.
Bugs Bunny turned me on to the culture from the 1890s on. Practically everything I know about opera I learned from Bugs Bunny.
Young folks today have very little of that kind of connection to the past.
It's funny but when I was a kid there wasn't a hyuuuge body of film and TV entertainment available because it hadn't been filmed yet so I grew up familiar with the stuff my parents watched when TV first came out. I saw the movies they watched and heard the music they and their parents listened to.
Bugs Bunny turned me on to the culture from the 1890s on. Practically everything I know about opera I learned from Bugs Bunny.
Young folks today have very little of that kind of connection to the past.
It's funny but when I was a kid there wasn't a hyu... (show quote)
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Back when I was stationed in Japan in the early 60's. The Lone Ranger was on TV on Saturday mornings. Of coarse, it was dubbed in Japanese, and he would say (spelling?) "Hiyako Silver-San".
True. Cartoons now are preachy little indoctrination tools. If I had little ones these days I wouldn't let them watch them. I'd invest in some old cartoon collections and watch them with my kids.
Back when I was stationed in Japan in the early 60's. The Lone Ranger was on TV on Saturday mornings. Of coarse, it was dubbed in Japanese, and he would say (spelling?) "Hiyako Silver-San".
True. Cartoons now are preachy little indoctrination tools. If I had little ones these days I wouldn't let them watch them. I'd invest in some old cartoon collections and watch them with my kids.
And that is exactly what my husband and I do.We watch all the great ones. Axel likes bugs and roadrunner and pepe la puew. Ryatt likes forlorn leghorn and Tom and Jerry. They laugh as hard as we did.