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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Malton on movies with Baron Vaughn.

I'm Leonard Malton.

And I'm not Leonard Malton. I'm Baron Vaughn.

You are.

The reason I use that introduction is that we're going to talk about animation today.

And as you may or may not know, cartoons for years and years and years have been thought of,

this is in the television era in particular, as kid stuff, cartoons are for kids.

And the truth is that back in the old days of theatrical cartoons, when Walt Disney was making

his first short cartoons and his early features,

when the Warner Brothers cartoons were churning them out, Chuck Jones for his Freeling, Tex Avery,

all of those great cartoons were being made. They were not made for kids. They were made for a

general audience. They were made for everybody. Yes, theaters used to have Saturday matinees, and they would show a cluster of cartoons,

so they knew that they were, you know, kid appealing.

But they also had to appeal to and entertain adults who went to the movies on Tuesday night

to see a feature film and got a cartoon with it.

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