Tuesday, July 8, 2008

'Dumbo'

Reading all these books and watching all these movies, you run into a lot of opposition and hatred. Americans have been pissed off at a lot of people for a long time often times for no good reason.

Yet, some 50 odd years ago, knee deep in Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism, segregation and the Cold War, Walt Disney released "Dumbo, which includes an entire scene built around the two main protagonists (Dumbo and the mouse) getting drunk and hallucinating about a bazillion empty-eyed pink elephants performing a song and dance number.

Ten of the creepiest moments in animation history.

And our missiles were aimed at the Communists?

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