Antonio E. Gonzalez wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:47:18 -0700, Unidyne
cox.net> wrote:
>
> >>Juan F. Lara wrote:
>>
>>> Now for this month's entry for adorable cartoon furries being used in
>>>heavy handed, violence oriented propaganda. :-)
>>>
>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPQMhISuMcQ
>>>
>>>Hamas tries to stick it to Fatah, characterizing the faction as corrupt rats,
>>>while saving the omnipotent, strongman-like lion for themselves.
>>>
>>> - Juan F. Lara
>>>
>
>
> I prefer "Russian Rhapsody" from the Warner stable; if some of the
> gremlins in there (great song, "Gremlins form the Kremlin, BTW) seem
> to have unusually human faces, there's a reason. The Warner animators
> and writers were notoriously leftist, to the point many were Soviet
> sympathisers (as ugly as it turned out, the HUAC has some basis in
> reality); the "human gremlins" were caricatures of said writers, a
> sort of self-insert to give them a chance to fight for the Red Army
> agaist the Nazis; heck, see the part where the one with the Stalin
> mask scares Hitler!:
>
> <
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xs8TVkJSUc>
"Gremlins From the Kremlin" was the original title, but it was changed
for some administrative reason.
From what I heard, the charactures simply an inside joke among the
animation staff, and there was no political mesages intended. Like the
Gremlin in "Falling Hare" was modeled after animation director Bob Clampett.
An episode of "Inspector Gadget" was set in an insane asylum. The
Italian animators modeled the patients after themselves.
