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Red_Snapper
5th February 2007, 18:53
Found this link today about a Soviet propaganda dvd set http://www.latimes.com/business/careers/wo...ack=1&cset=true (http://www.latimes.com/business/careers/work/la-ca-soviet4feb04,1,7925605.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)
Sounds interesting, I'll keep a lookout for it. :P

Comrade Marcel
6th February 2007, 05:07
The link is for registered subscribers online, at least I could not view it. Perhaps you could cut n paste or give your own summary.

Stasya
6th February 2007, 06:54
it's the 4 disc animated set i've had for some time now. ;)

Red_Snapper
6th February 2007, 08:55
Sorry about that, heres the article:

Soviet propaganda cartoons come to video
The four-DVD set 'Animated Soviet Propaganda' opens the vaults on decades of Cold War humor.
By Robert W. Welkos, Times Staff Writer
February 4, 2007

IN 1995, Malibu producer Joan Borsten and her husband, the Russian-born actor Oleg Vidov, were poring over a library of animated films produced at Moscow's Soyuzmultfilm Studio when they discovered buried among the children's classics other films that caught their attention.

These were no Disney-like fairy tales or Russian folk stories. Instead, these animated short films intended for the Soviet masses painted a sinister portrait of life in capitalist America.

"Black and White," produced in 1933, depicted a highway with an endless row of blacks lynched on telephone poles. "The Millionaire," made in 1963, told the story of a rich American woman who leaves $1 million to her pet bulldog, who becomes so wealthy and powerful that he eventually is elected to Congress. And in the 1979 animated short "Shooting Range," a jobless American youth finds work in a carnival shooting gallery only to discover the evil, greedy owner is now charging double — for people to use the youth as target practice.

These films, rarely seen in the West, are among several dozen included in a four-disc DVD anthology titled "Animated Soviet Propaganda" that is being distributed by Kino International and Films by Jove. The collection retails for $89.

The anthology is divided into categories titled "American Imperialists," "Fascist Barbarians," "Capitalist Sharks" and "Onward to the Shining Future: Communism." The DVDs include interviews with Russian film school professors, directors and animators, including famed animator Boris Yefimov, who was 101 and died two years after being interviewed.

The earliest film in the collection is "Soviet Toys," made in 1924; the last is "History of the Toy," an anti-fascist film made six decades later.

Borsten is president of Films by Jove, which acquired worldwide distribution rights to many of the Moscow studio's animation library.

"After the Bolshevik Revolution, about 200,000 [Communist] party members inherited a land mass of mostly illiterate people," said Borsten. "Lenin said film was the best media for propaganda. Within the film genre, animation was by far the easiest way to say what was bad and what was good."

Joseph Stalin, who succeeded Lenin, ordered the building of the state-run animation studio after becoming enamored with a Walt Disney film festival held in Moscow. But while many of the films produced at the studio beginning in 1936 were based on European and Russian folk tales, some were blatant political propaganda designed to show America and the West in the worst possible light.

New Russian Word, a Russian-language daily published in New York, said in a recent article that one can't help but chuckle at the 1949 animated short "Someone Else's Voice," in which "Russian traditionalist nightingales hiss and boo" an "obnoxious magpie who returns from the West having learnt to sing jazz while on vacation."

"In 1936, most animation were films for children," Borsten said. "But while the studio was making beautiful films for children, it was also making propaganda for adults and children."

Over the decades, the depiction of capitalists in Soviet animation rarely changed.

They were shown as greedy, racist, cigar-chomping fat cats bent on exploiting the noble worker. That characterization didn't change even with liberalization of communist rule.

"After perestroika," Borsten noted, "Americans who came to Russia to invest were still being called 'capitalist sharks.' "

Some of the early works in the collection were produced by Bolshevik collectives; later works were produced at the Soviet animation studio. But all of them serve to point out what the Russian people were subjected to during the years of Communist totalitarianism.

Vidov believes the animated propaganda films that he grew up with kept Soviet citizens wary about life outside their borders. People inside the Soviet Union came to believe that America was a scary place, where there was high unemployment, blacks were routinely beaten, and capitalists had bags of money and were free to abuse those who had less.

"It was a war between socialism and capitalism," Vidov said. "Now, there are rich and poor in Russia. So, now, I don't think anybody is talking about it."

Psy
6th February 2007, 15:03
I already posted a thread on this Animated Soviet Propaganda (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=58973), it includes links were you can watch them online.

Comrade Marcel
7th February 2007, 06:29
Originally posted by [email protected] 06, 2007 06:54 am
it's the 4 disc animated set i've had for some time now. ;)
That's what I thought. Why don't you post the torrent for everyone? :D

Stasya
8th February 2007, 01:42
Originally posted by [email protected] 06, 2007 03:13 pm
He he. People only THINK that Disney isn't political. All of their stories are about rags- to-riches capitalist idealism, and all of their female characters are attractive sex objects, despite the fact that Disney toons are "for Children".

Seems to me, around this time (30's, 40's), Warner brothers and Disney were making propaganda cartoons for the Second World War. Warner Brothers took it one step further, making several cartoons that viciously lampooned African-Americans.You can go to Youtube, and watch many of these disgusting creations.
Hey, D. :)
i d/led some of these cartoons years ago. Here are a few i just came across, there are many more. Dr. Seus also did some small comics in newspapers in the 40's, there's one below and a few more here (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/).

Warner Brothers

1. Brother Brat, 1944
AA 035 Warner Brothers
A musclebound female defense worker at Blockheed recruits Porky Pig to watch her kid, but Porky is no match for little Butch, even though the pig follows the suggestions of a book, Child Psychology. Discipline returns when Mom comes home from her shift.

2. Bugs Bunny (Bond Rally), 194?
AC 311 Warner Brothers
Opens to Bugs dressed as a revolutionary soldier playing his carrot like a flute. He does a song and dance to sell war bonds, joined by Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig.

3. Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips, 1944
AA 041 Warner Brothers
Somewhere in the Pacific, Bugs, floating in a crate, lands on an island filled with Japanese soldiers. Bugs takes on all comers, disguised as the "Good Rumor Man."

4. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, 1943
AA 053 Warner Brothers
This blackface parody of Disney's Snow White includes a wicked queen who hoards sugar, coffee, tires, and scrap metal and seven dwarfs in army uniforms.

5. Conrad the Sailor, 1942
AA 055 Warner Brothers
On a large battleship leaving port, Conrad the cat is swabbing the deck. Daffy Duck comes along and causes him all sorts of grief.

6. Crazy Cruise, 1942
AA 064 Warner Brothers
A travelogue spoof including a Japanese vulture menacing cute bunnies, who fight back with heavy artillery.

7. Daffy the Commando, 1943
AA 073 Warner Brothers
Daffy Duck parachutes into Nazi territory taking on Kommandant Von Vulture and his lackey, Schultz, and finally hitting Hitler in the head with a mallet.

8. The Draft Horse, 1942
AA 086 Warner Brothers
A farm horse goes down to the draft board to enlist but is classified 44-F and sent home.

9. Draftee Daffy, 1945
AA 087 Warner Brothers
Daffy Duck is fully behind the war effort until he is drafted. The man from the draft board attempts to deliver his notice as Daffy frantically avoids him, even by hiding in Hell. Unfortunately for Daffy, the devil is the man from the draft board in disguise.

10. Falling Hare, 1943
AA 098 Warner Brothers
Bugs Bunny battles an orange gremlin intent on sabotage at an airfield. A horrible crash is avoided when the plane's ration of fuel runs out.

11. Fifth Column Mouse, 1943
AA 103 Warner Brothers
A trio of mice are singing and floating on a bar of soap. A cat bursts in and uses trickery to catch and enslave the mice. The mice build a mechanical bulldog and defeat the cat.

12. The Fighting 69½, 1941
AA 104 Warner Brothers
A couple is having a picnic in a peaceful forest. Red ants are on one side and black ants on the other. Both sides declare war over the picnic goodies.

13. Foney Fables, 1942
AA 108 Warner Brothers
Spoofs of children's storybook characters, including a grasshopper who buys war bonds, a fifth-columnist wolf in sheep's clothing, a goose who lays aluminum eggs for war production, and a Mother Hubbard who hoards.

14. Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears, 1944
AA 119 Warner Brothers
This is the story of Goldilocks and the three black bears, who are jazz musicians, mixed with Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. Because Red is busy working at Lockheed, the wolf turns his attention to Goldilocks, who wears him out with her dancing.

15. Herr Meets Hare, 1945
AA 148 Warner Brothers
Bugs Bunny encounters "Fatso" Goering in the Black Forest while trying to get to Las Vegas. Bugs taunts the Nazi, who captures him and takes him to Hitler, but Bugs gets the last laugh disguised as Stalin.

16. Hollywood Canine Canteen, 1946
AA 167 Warner Brothers
This is the familiar Hollywood USO club except that film stars and famous musicians are depicted as dogs, such as Hairy James, Lionel Hambone, and Boney Goodman.

17. I Got Plenty of Mutton, 1944
AA 175 Warner Brothers
A wolf on the home front must scramble when his meat allowance is cut. Unfortunately, the sheepdog has joined the WAGS to enforce rationing.

18. Jack Wabbit and the Beanstalk, 1943
AA 187 Warner Brothers
This is the familiar story of Jack and the giant with Bugs Bunny playing Jack's part. The trouble begins when Bugs is caught harvesting the giant's victory garden.

19. Little Red Riding Rabbit, 1944
AA 204 Warner Brothers
Grandma is busy working at Lockheed in this war-era version of the story, so when Red tries to deliver Bugs as a present, the wolf has two victims to chase. Red winds up the loser.

20. Meatless Flydays, 1944
AA 211 Warner Brothers
A housefly is buzzing near the ceiling. On a table below a spider plans his trap. The warfare that ensues contains references to Japanese suicide planes, civil defense, and food rationing.

21. Nasty Quacks, 1945
AA 224 Warner Brothers
A daughter's pet baby duckling has grown into Daffy, who is driving her father insane. Dad tries to eliminate the duck in a number of imaginative ways. At one point Daffy is on the verge of leaving but remembers the government's wartime ban on nonessential travel.

22. Of Thee I Sting, 1946
AA 231 Warner Brothers
A battalion of mosquitoes is shown training for its mission, taking off from a sardine-can aircraft carrier, attacking and defeating a well-defended farmer, and then crash landing in the water.

23. Plane Daffy, 1944
AA 244 Warner Brothers
The alarm is raised at carrier pigeon headquarters when Pigeon 13 goes AWOL with a female Nazi spy bird to whom he reveals all his secrets. Daffy volunteers for the next mission but has to swallow his secret message when Hatta Mari corners him as well. She X-rays the duck and broadcasts the secret ("Hitler is a stinker") to Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels.

24. Rookie Revue, 1941
AA 032 Warner Brothers
Begins on a billboard reading "Join the Army." A narrator announces: "Let's join the army for a day." We are off to Fort Nix to observe army life, which consists of a series of gags and mistakes ending in the destruction of headquarters by friendly fire.

25. A Russian Rhapsody, 1944
AA 259 Warner Brothers
Hitler is furious that another squadron of planes has failed to reach Moscow. Hitler flies a plane to Moscow himself to find out what's happening, and the "gremlins from the Kremlin" stop him.

26. Super-Rabbit, 1943
AA 290 Warner Brothers
The cartoon begins as a Superman parody. A narrator describes how Bugs became the Super-Rabbit by eating a vitamin-enriched carrot. His adventures as Super-Rabbit are chronicled but end abruptly when Bugs becomes a real Superman--a U.S. Marine.

27. The Swooner Crooner, 1944
AA 292 Warner Brothers
Production drops at Flockheed Eggcraft Factory when the hens leave their posts to hear Frankie, a crooning rooster, sing. Porky Pig stages a contest to find a singer to encourage production. This ends with a singing duel between a Crosby rooster and Frankie that produces mountains of eggs.

28. A Tale of Two Kitties, 1942
AA 293 Warner Brothers
Two cats, based on Abbott and Costello, chase Tweety Bird. When one cat dons wooden wings, Tweety alerts the air-raid warden, who has the cat shot from the sky.

29. Tin Pan Alley Cats, 1943
AA 299 Warner Brothers
A Fats Waller cat visits the Kit Kat Club, where a hot jazz version of "Nagasaki" sends him to Wackyland, complete with Hitler, Stalin, and Japanese enemies. He runs from the club to join the Uncle Tomcat Mission band.

30. The Unruly Hare, 1945
AA 313 Warner Brothers
Elmer Fudd the surveyor plans to build a railroad track right over Bugs's hole. Bugs retaliates. Eventually the railroad is constructed, but civilians are reminded of the government's wartime ban on unnecessary travel.

31. The Weakly Reporter, 1944
AA 324 Warner Brothers
This newsreel parody covers home-front activities during the war. The Statue of Liberty and the presidents on Mt. Rushmore are air-raid wardens, and there are references to rationing and women doing industrial war work.

Popeye

32. Blunder Below, 1942
AA 358 Popeye
On the bridge of a navy ship, the captain is teaching the sailors how to work a gun. Popeye is not as quick as the others and has his troubles firing the gun, but he ends up sinking a Japanese submarine.

33. Fleets of Stren'th, 1942
AA 385 Popeye
Popeye scrubs the deck of a navy ship while reading a Superman comic. An officer orders him to load a mosquito boat. Suddenly, they are attacked by planes and Popeye rescues the ship.

34. Happy Birthdaze, 1942
AA 401 Popeye
A V-mail truck is at the wharf next to a navy ship. On board all the sailors are reading their mail, except one, who is so depressed that he tries to kill himself. Popeye stops him and invites him to Olive's. Olive gives Popeye a cake for his birthday. The sailor gets into all sorts of trouble.

35. A Hull of a Mess, 1942
AA 411 Popeye
Opens to a government official giving Popeye and Bluto plans for a ship. The first one to build the ship will get the military contract. The race is on.

36. The Hungry Goat, 1943
AA 412 Popeye
A goat is starving because all scrap metal is being used for the war effort. Spying a navy ship, he begins to munch, and Popeye tries to stop him.

37. A Jolly Good Furlough, 1943
AA 430 Popeye
Popeye is in the South Seas fighting the Japanese. He is given leave to return home. But at home Olive is too busy for him, and his nephews make life so hectic that he goes back to the war.

38. Many Tanks, 1942
AA 445 Popeye
Bluto is in the army. He tries to get past the guard at the gate but has no luck. Along comes Popeye, who changes places with him. Popeye gets stuck on maneuvers while Bluto is at Olive's.

39. Mess Production, 1945
AA 448 Popeye
Bluto and Popeye are working in a factory, and each tries to be the first to ask out Olive, the new girl on the job.

40. Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix, 1942
AA 463 Popeye
On a navy ship, Popeye and Bluto swear off women. Then Olive comes on board for a tour.

41. Ration for the Duration, 1943
AA 503 Popeye
Opens in a Spinach Victory Garden. Popeye is planting spinach everywhere. His nephews are picking up worms to go fishing. Popeye tells them the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk and then takes a nap and dreams of the giant as a hoarder of rationed home-front supplies.

42. Scrap the Japs, 1942
AA 510 Popeye
Popeye is punished for doing things the wrong way onboard ship. The ship is suddenly attacked by the Japanese, and Popeye scrambles up in an airplane to fight them.

43. Seein' Red, White, 'n' Blue, 1943
AA 512 Popeye
Bluto is at work shoeing a horse. The mailman comes along with Bluto's draft notice. He tries several ploys to get out of serving and complains to the draft board, constituted by Popeye. Finally, he tries to hurt himself, but he gains a sense of patriotism in the end.

44. Service with a Guile, 1946
AA 513 Popeye
A large yellow car carrying an admiral pulls up at Olive's Service Station. At the same time, Popeye and Bluto arrive on a twenty-four-hour pass. They want to take Olive rowing in the park, but she must service the car first. They try to help but they cannot stop trying to best each other. It's the admiral's car that suffers.

45. Spinach for Britain, 1943
AA 524 Popeye
A small Allied ship is sunk by a German sub. While looking for other targets, the sub comes upon Popeye bringing a ship full of spinach to Britain. The fight is on.

46. Spinach Packin' Popeye, 1944
AA 526 Popeye
Popeye donates at the local blood bank, and later that night he fights Bluto and loses, but it's only a dream.

47. You're a Sap Mister Jap, 1942
AA 556 Popeye
Popeye is on patrol in the Pacific. He finds a Japanese fishing boat that is really a warship in disguise. After some setbacks, Popeye triumphs.

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OneBrickOneVoice
8th February 2007, 04:13
ahaha that article contradicts the shit out of itself.

Nothing Human Is Alien
8th February 2007, 04:45
Dr. Seus [sic] also did some small comics in newspapers in the 40's, there's one below and a few more here.

He also did some anti-racist ones.

Nothing Human Is Alien
8th February 2007, 04:46
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