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From: sherm@wucs.UUCP (Sherman Lee)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Favorite cartoons
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 14:15:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 14:15:48 1986
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[line-eater, do you still exist?]

Ahhh, I remember the golden-age Popeye cartoons.  

I saw one as a short before a feature movie back in the days just
before multiplex cinemas.  It was based on Ali Baba, and in particular
I remember there were at least three layers of cels moving at different
speeds to truly enhance the 3-D effect.

Just recently I noticed that Popeye was on TV, tuned in, and to my
dismay/horror/shock I saw a King Features version of Popeye and became
nauseated.  A four year old kid could animate better than that -- 
at least kids could write plots better than that...

This might have been stated already, but the same thing has happened
to `Tom and Jerry'...

To top it off, I asked some younger children what they thought of these
cartoons and their response was that they're stupid, with `kiddie'
animation... of course they like `Masters of the Universe'.

What I don't understand is why companies keep producing such trash
insisting that kids don't know the difference... of course if kids
don't see the `classics', they *can't* know the difference.

One tangential issue:  is there more commercialism associated with
children's programming than 5, 10, or 20 years ago?