Fun Fact: Horton hears a Who was made as an apology/atonement for his anti-Japanese sentiments. And it was dedicated to a Japanese friend Dr. Seuss made. I also appreciate that you're not trying to paint Dr. Seuss as massively racist. I saw this other video that took his WWII propaganda media and Seuss' banned books out of context and used them to paint the narrative in question.
@@theothervault Still, I appreciate you didn't make him out to just be a bad guy. And you even used the political cartoon of Uncle Sam getting rid of the "Racial Prejudice Bug", showing how much Dr. Seuss was against bigotry and racial discrimination.
He wasn’t a “bad person” or a “good person” he was a person with plenty of flaws and plenty of strengths and learned from his mistakes, we often try to call historical people either one or the other, good or bad when shit is always hell of a lot more complicated
@@rowandunning6877 Oh yes, certainly. Not only that, but the definition of "Good" and "Bad" often changes from person to person, culture to culture, and even era to era.
It's truly amazing at how UA-cam content creators have stepped up to the garbage that Hollywood produces. This is top tier UA-cam quality. Keep up the phenomenal work and thank you for all the time and effort you put into this.
@@VoightKampf Screw the Nazi loving prick, Disney was a PoS and if he wants to own a character he should have made his own. He didn't produce those, he helped; the artist and the people with talent did the work.
@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket Yes, they did the work, but on HIS dime! People don't work for free, even in times of war. Disney, however, worked at cost for our war cause. He lost out on a lot of money and put his feature cartoons and business efforts on hold for the duration of the war. Don't buy into all the BS hate toward him. The ones Controlling his empire now are the truly evil ones.
I have a big book of early Dr Seuss political cartoons from his WWII days. It has work by some other artists as well, but it’s real interesting seeing the same art style as “The Cat in the Hat” being used to show Hitler failing to plug a leaky dam keeping Democracy at bay.
What is sad is people will take things out of context and omit important details to push an agenda. Thank you for presenting this biography responsibly. Public culture has the right to evolve and not be judged harshly to only stir up resentment. What is sad is, all cultures and nations would use stereotypes and had a kind of bigotry towards their adversaries.
They've got it down to an art. It doesn't seem like much of a challenge to malign anything people might admire. That admiration is only allowed for what they want to promote.
Not only that, but today's society judges items from the past by today's standards. You can't accurately do that. That's not fair to the people who made those items; whatever today's society deems "offensive" or "racist" or whatever was totally acceptable then.
@@kevintaylor9912 Lots of things that "shouldn't have been acceptable" were, & nothing can change that. However, we can learn from our mistakes & not repeat them. My point was that you can't judge the past by today's standards.
So you respect the fact that they was and are trying to indoctrinate the little kids into accepting and participating in role reversal? Meaning trying to be something other than the biology they are born to be!
So you respect the fact that they was and are trying to indoctrinate the little kids into accepting and participating in role reversal? Meaning trying to be something other than the biology they are born to be! Stan Lee not like that I love the X-Men! Walt Disney though I used to watch his cartoons but now I really see the sublime stuff they be drawing for the kids knowing they’ll pick up on the subliminal drawing and won’t understand what it means!
The cartoonists at "Termite Terrace" (Warner Brothers) said that they made their cartoons for themselves (I'm paraphrasing here). I still watch Looney Tunes & find jokes that slipped past me in my younger years.
They were made to indoctrinate kids into accepting a boy trying to be a girl and a girl trying to be a boy! Yes role reversal has been going on for centuries and we didn’t pay attention like we should have!😢
Early cartoon shorts (up to the mid 60s) were made for everyone; Kids AND adults, because EVERY movie, horror, period drama, whatever, included cartoon shorts before the feature. It was only mid-60s, when cartoons switched from being made for the big screen, to being made for TV, that they became exclusively made for kids, resulting in budgets and quality both dropping through the floor; That's why the best known, best quality cartoons are from the 50s or earlier; Classic Looney Tunes, or 40s Tom qnd Jerry, or even 30s black and white Betty Boop and Popeye shorts, all have a level of quality and animation skill, that no other Western animation (except maybe Disney animated features) ever equalled. The late 60's/70's "limited animation" of Hanna Barbera was a GIANT drop in quality, from 50a cartoons. They started constantly re-using background loops or walk loops. Or only animating the characters mouth, while the body is motionless. Because "who cares, it's only gonna be 8yo:s watching it anyway". It was only after Simpsons got big in the 90s, that Western animation started being made for adults again (but IMO the quality never returned to the level of the 30s, 40s and. 50s)
18:08 yooo a 500 Fingers reference?? Had it on VHS as a kid and loved it. So surreal and the music is implemented so well. Never put together that it was an allegory about conscription until now, really hope this means youre gonna dive into it in a future vid
Other Vault, just a heads-up: I've seen several people gripe that their historical videos got demonetized without warning or explanation, but they ultimately figured out that UA-cam's bots recognized a 1940s symbol that's half visible in the thumbnail. The thumb shouldn't be an issue, but you might wanna crop or put a blur filter on a few shots in the video and re-upload this. It's clearly seen at 9:40-something, 10:18, and probably elsewhere.
What I find really interesting about the Private SNAFU shorts is, although they're literal propaganda, the depictions of Japanese culture portrayed in them, shows a greater level of accuracy and care than what you see in modern "Japan and China are the same thing, right?" cartoons. Like, they correctly show people bowing with a straight back with arms at their sides, rather than the "both hands held together" bow that's actually from Thailand, which is typically used in American cartoons.
I used to go to my grandparents house often, and my grandfather, who was a WWII vet, used to put on recordings of old cartoons for me. It wasn't until i grew up a bit that i realized most of what i watched were old propaganda cartoons. I don't think it was intentional, they were older, obviously, so they would get these tapes of cartoons that were familiar to them. It just happened to be that much of it was war time cartoons. So i grew up in the 80s knowing a lot of these. Aside a very 1960s style house, 2 tier fiberglass lampshades, rounded doorways, and wooden radios, my memories of them are filled with sitting near a big wooden box TV and classic cartoons. I'm glad i got to experience that.
I always have to laugh a little whenever I see old file footage of large numbers of Japanese soldiers from the era and realize that they are almost all extremely short and MANY of them have the trade mark "buck teeth" and small round glasses that the stereotype portrays them with. Point being, the propaganda posters were far more accurate than people would like to admit.
@@smgdfcmfah That's sort of how they do all cartoon characters, and they do it to everyone, even celebrities, they exaggerate (or don't) the details. I get that sometimes it's meant to be 'unflattering', but it's like these days... people *want* so desperately to be offended. For example, all the brands that had to change packaging, that sort of thing. Worse than children, make a bid deal out of everything, get overly emotional about it. I think a lot of people now miss the entire point too, of propaganda, it's still used around the world in different forms. Some people cannot understand history, they learn nothing.
I watched all these Snafu cartoons, and while humorous they did teach American soldiers what not to do. Remember that there were still soldiers in the army, navy, ECT who could not really read, and these cartoons were used to teach them. My favorite one is about taking care of your weapons. Think that would be very helpful.
My two most favorite books and animations were Bartholomew and the 500 hats, and Ooblek. Ooblek fascinated me because I saw it only days after I had seen the origional Blob movie, which gave me nightmares for weeks😅
I met him when I was a kid. My mother was a reading resource specialist in a San Diego area school district. He gave her a personally signed first edition of one of his last books.
My father was in the Navy (South Pacific) in WW2. A part of what he did in his duties in mine disposal / disarming was to be in training films about such. I'd love to see his films, if they still exist. I HAVE seen some still photos from them.
I remember seeing some Private SNAFU art painted on some WWII military equipment in some of the museums in Europe as a kid. When I got back state side people has not seen them and the films were not out to the public so I buttoned my lips as it were till they did get released in the 60's. However many did not see them till they were rereleased on the 50th anniversary of each being made.
Saw a similar book like Godivas in my dad's book shelf, in his personal office. Couldn't read back then, but that's an image you'll never forget. That, and a lot of other items vanished off that shelf, the day my parents realized a 3 and a half year old can stack furniture to reach whatever they want😂
I have a copy of a book that was compiled by a college professor called Dr. Seuss Goes To War It is full of his wartime material... Also his Seven Sisters Godiva (adult rated material) These books are a recomended read for any Dr. Seuss adult fan
I inherited "The Pocket Book of Boners" from my grandfather! Imagine reading this in the 5th grade, and having it taken away by the teacher - a couple times! Very funny book.
This Dr. Seuss influence became the inspiration for “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”, a cartoon series did influenced the Dr. Seuss formula, and it became a success.
Those military cartoons were not intended for children so they weren't really hidden, they were always intended for the mature adult military entertainment.
My wife's great uncle may have inadvertently been a part of this idea. He was a Hollywood agent and producer, and he signed up at 31 for service as soon as it was possible. His unit was held up at the departure facility for troops in the Pacific for about a month, and every day, he would go to the health and safety lecture provided by the base doctor. One day, the doctor was delayed, and with a hall of restless troops, Uncle Ben took the microphone and basically did a stand up routine, while providing all of the information that the troops needed. But instead of troops ignoring it, they hooted and hollered. Unbeknownst to Uncle Ben, the base's commanding general was in the audience that day. And when Ben was done, the general called him into his office and told him "I've sat through that boring lecture at least 100 times, but this is the first time I think the boys actually listened to what was said. You may not have planned it when you pick up that microphone, but you have yourself a job for the rest of the war!" It should be mentioned that Uncle Ben's unit was ambushed on a Pacific island, and every man was lost. Uncle Ben died in 2003 at the age of 91.
Dr. Suess goes to war is a great book. It has alot of great art and is a neat look at the time period. Alot of the army instructional comics were reprinted and are available if you look for them. They also do Dr.Seuss art exhibits with his paintings and sculptures that i totally recomend seeing if you can. The art is amazing.
It was not classified because of whatever style cartoom he made, private snafu for example was made and used by the USA military, thats why it was classified, it was specifically for their exclusive use.
Yep. People keep calling these cartoons banned or classified because of how raunchy they were but no they were made by the request of the government to train the new recruits back in a time when most of them would be illiterate. We also taught airmen to navigate with the stars by putting constellations overplayed on pinup girls.
Well, there was zero chance that these could have been released widely under the Hays Code at that time. Absolutely would have been banned for their raunchy content. But obviously wide release wasn't the intention here.
I watched a WW2 training video here on UA-cam several years ago for operating a side gun on a bomber. Lots of physics about how bullets fired from a moving plane work, what attack angles fighters used, and what effective aiming principles to use. All in an entertaining package. Just the kind of training material you don't want to fall into enemy hands, but 70 years later not a big deal.
What I personally find MOST remarkable about this period in history was just HOW many future legends actually crossed paths with each other; Seuss and Warner Bros., (ostensibly Chuck Jones) Disney and Roald Dahl, the list goes on! At least one nice thig we can look back on from this time was how a single cause (a world-war) rallied the whole nation together, if only for a little while. =)
Back then a 'boner' was a screwup, a mistake. There's an old Batman comic where the Joker is offended that Batman laughed at his 'boner'. Please explain these things better
Leading up to WWII, many men, from rural areas, had, maybe, a sixth-grade education. The women, though, went on to high school, and the reason for this was, the young boys helped make money for the family during the depression. It was like that all through the Appalachians and in the South, thus, illiteracy was high.
I have a DVD of war time cartoons with Private Snafu & Mr. Hook. A few of the cartoons have commentaries by animation historians. And then some have completely useless ones by John Kricfalusi with a girl "animation student" and some other guy. They have zero interesting information. John K. just says things like "Chuck Jones's Mr. Hook cartoons are gay because they don't have enough naked ladies in them," while the "animation student" giggles. At the time I listened to the commentary I wondered why the heck that "animation student" was even there. Now we know the disturbing truth. (I don't remember the name of the girl, or if she was one of the ones who went public with their allegations.)
"Our Friend The Atom". Describing that discovering atomic energy was like letting a Genie out of it's bottle, and could be used for constructive purposes, not just atomic bombs.
@@jsl151850bWonder if this Genie's design influenced the design of one from Disney's ALADDIN (I mean their are some interesting similarities between the two)!
I didn't know that Seuss wrote for Snafu. I knew about Snafu being made by the Looney Tunes crew... But, yeah, didn't know. Shouldn't be too surprising, since they made a Looney Tunes adaptation of Horton Hatches the Egg.
My mother, a secretary to the top brass at Alcoa aka Aluminum Company of America, in Los Angles in the 1940ies had a interesting story. She was secretary to a VP in charge of shipping and one day he went to lunch at his usual time BUT did NOT return to work for 5 hours. When he did, mom said he was as white as a sheet! He told her he and another VP were having lunch and discussing business and the other VP wondered why they were shipping so much aluminum to New Mexico where there were no airplane plants or other Defense Plants. Mom's boss said, "I don't know, maybe it has something to do with a bomb." With that the two VPs were arrested by men in black suits and taken "down town" where they spent the next 5 hours convincing the suits they were NOT spys and had NO knowledge of ANY new type (read Atom) bomb being developed at a plant in New Mexico (at Los Alamos)!
@@EbenBransome It is ALWAYS good when the government accidentally confirms what EVERYBODY knows! You have to remember Atomic Fission the basis OF THE BOMB was discovered in 1938 and was widely publicized.
With Oak Ridge TN not that far away from Alcoa, it's not surprising that the authorities jumped in so quickly. The irony is that the interrogators might not have known that much about the actual bomb.
My goodness, my goodness. A friend does return. The Other Vault has come, a lesson we must learn. For he brings two things; entertain and great truth. The truth about the toons of one good ol' Dr. Seuss. Come sit, like, surbscribe and more. For we shall see what TOV has in store!
2:37 he actually was a doctor a Doctor of laughter😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 because I'm still laughing at all the s*** that he put out especially with the cat in the hat movie that was some funny f****** s***
Fun Fact: Horton hears a Who was made as an apology/atonement for his anti-Japanese sentiments. And it was dedicated to a Japanese friend Dr. Seuss made.
I also appreciate that you're not trying to paint Dr. Seuss as massively racist. I saw this other video that took his WWII propaganda media and Seuss' banned books out of context and used them to paint the narrative in question.
Thanks so much! I definitely try to avoid painting historical figures and artists like Seuss with such a broad brush.
Reminder the government you trust so much is the same one that paid for wartime racism.
@@theothervault Still, I appreciate you didn't make him out to just be a bad guy. And you even used the political cartoon of Uncle Sam getting rid of the "Racial Prejudice Bug", showing how much Dr. Seuss was against bigotry and racial discrimination.
He wasn’t a “bad person” or a “good person” he was a person with plenty of flaws and plenty of strengths and learned from his mistakes, we often try to call historical people either one or the other, good or bad when shit is always hell of a lot more complicated
@@rowandunning6877 Oh yes, certainly. Not only that, but the definition of "Good" and "Bad" often changes from person to person, culture to culture, and even era to era.
It's truly amazing at how UA-cam content creators have stepped up to the garbage that Hollywood produces. This is top tier UA-cam quality. Keep up the phenomenal work and thank you for all the time and effort you put into this.
Thanks - I really appreciate this!
Now this is what youtube should be used for. Interesting videos on the history of unique niche topics.
Thanks! Happy to provide!
@theothervault no thank you
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UA-cam tries to provide something for everybody. Leaving the picking/choosing, i.e. view or ignore/delete, to all of us.
@RErnie-gv1hv ehhhhhh most of ot is garbage
My father DeWolfe Hotchkiss created Scuttlebutt Sam, who would remind sailors not to waste food or gossip about orders.
Woah, that's awesome! I'll have to check him out. Thanks for sharing!
So many cool connections in the comments!
The other reason Disney never produced Pvt. SNAFU cartoons was the fact Walt wanted license ownership of the character.
Always the buck with Disney
Blame losing Oswalds rights
@hectormanuel8360 That is correct. He was deeply hurt by that and it cemented his determination to have exclusive rights to anything he produced.
@@VoightKampf Screw the Nazi loving prick, Disney was a PoS and if he wants to own a character he should have made his own. He didn't produce those, he helped; the artist and the people with talent did the work.
@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket Yes, they did the work, but on HIS dime! People don't work for free, even in times of war. Disney, however, worked at cost for our war cause. He lost out on a lot of money and put his feature cartoons and business efforts on hold for the duration of the war. Don't buy into all the BS hate toward him. The ones Controlling his empire now are the truly evil ones.
I have a big book of early Dr Seuss political cartoons from his WWII days. It has work by some other artists as well, but it’s real interesting seeing the same art style as “The Cat in the Hat” being used to show Hitler failing to plug a leaky dam keeping Democracy at bay.
What is sad is people will take things out of context and omit important details to push an agenda. Thank you for presenting this biography responsibly. Public culture has the right to evolve and not be judged harshly to only stir up resentment. What is sad is, all cultures and nations would use stereotypes and had a kind of bigotry towards their adversaries.
Exactly
They've got it down to an art. It doesn't seem like much of a challenge to malign anything people might admire. That admiration is only allowed for what they want to promote.
Not only that, but today's society judges items from the past by today's standards. You can't accurately do that. That's not fair to the people who made those items; whatever today's society deems "offensive" or "racist" or whatever was totally acceptable then.
Something acceptable in the past doesn't mean that it should have been!
@@kevintaylor9912 Lots of things that "shouldn't have been acceptable" were, & nothing can change that. However, we can learn from our mistakes & not repeat them. My point was that you can't judge the past by today's standards.
Dr Seuss (Ted Geisel) was the first prominent journalist in the USA who warned us about Hitler.
We can apply that same lesson today to Benjamin Netanyahu.
@@georgeporgy7568 You are an anti-Semitic bastard.
@@georgeporgy7568 silly.
@@georgeporgy7568different scenarios but you'll learn one day
I actually have, though later, a 1960s comic booklet demonstrating the care and maintenance of their M16s.
My favorite SNAFU cartoons are "Gas" and "Rumors". Geisel's weirdest book is probably "Seven Lady Godivas". Thanks for the video.
So glad you enjoyed it!
The Seven Lady Godivas is a great book with great Dr. SEUSS illustrations.
I have always liked Walt Disney, Stan Lee, Dr Seuss, and Hank Ketcham, I have gained a new respect for them all.
So you respect the fact that they was and are trying to indoctrinate the little kids into accepting and participating in role reversal? Meaning trying to be something other than the biology they are born to be!
So you respect the fact that they was and are trying to indoctrinate the little kids into accepting and participating in role reversal? Meaning trying to be something other than the biology they are born to be! Stan Lee not like that I love the X-Men! Walt Disney though I used to watch his cartoons but now I really see the sublime stuff they be drawing for the kids knowing they’ll pick up on the subliminal drawing and won’t understand what it means!
I've always said cartoons weren't originally made for kids
Yep, and "nursery rhymes"
we're for adults in a time of censorship
My dad was a Marine and he told me about the Private Snafu cartoons he watched in boot camp. 😂
The cartoonists at "Termite Terrace" (Warner Brothers) said that they made their cartoons for themselves (I'm paraphrasing here). I still watch Looney Tunes & find jokes that slipped past me in my younger years.
They were made to indoctrinate kids into accepting a boy trying to be a girl and a girl trying to be a boy! Yes role reversal has been going on for centuries and we didn’t pay attention like we should have!😢
Early cartoon shorts (up to the mid 60s) were made for everyone; Kids AND adults, because EVERY movie, horror, period drama, whatever, included cartoon shorts before the feature.
It was only mid-60s, when cartoons switched from being made for the big screen, to being made for TV, that they became exclusively made for kids, resulting in budgets and quality both dropping through the floor;
That's why the best known, best quality cartoons are from the 50s or earlier; Classic Looney Tunes, or 40s Tom qnd Jerry, or even 30s black and white Betty Boop and Popeye shorts, all have a level of quality and animation skill, that no other Western animation (except maybe Disney animated features) ever equalled.
The late 60's/70's "limited animation" of Hanna Barbera was a GIANT drop in quality, from 50a cartoons. They started constantly re-using background loops or walk loops. Or only animating the characters mouth, while the body is motionless. Because "who cares, it's only gonna be 8yo:s watching it anyway".
It was only after Simpsons got big in the 90s, that Western animation started being made for adults again (but IMO the quality never returned to the level of the 30s, 40s and. 50s)
18:08 yooo a 500 Fingers reference?? Had it on VHS as a kid and loved it. So surreal and the music is implemented so well. Never put together that it was an allegory about conscription until now, really hope this means youre gonna dive into it in a future vid
I don't know what was bigger shock, learning about this side of dr Seuss or finding out about russ meyer's film work.
Faster pussycat kill kill?
My favourite line from _the Five Thousand Fingers of Dr T_ : *It's ATOMIC*
*VERY* atomic!
Other Vault, just a heads-up: I've seen several people gripe that their historical videos got demonetized without warning or explanation, but they ultimately figured out that UA-cam's bots recognized a 1940s symbol that's half visible in the thumbnail. The thumb shouldn't be an issue, but you might wanna crop or put a blur filter on a few shots in the video and re-upload this. It's clearly seen at 9:40-something, 10:18, and probably elsewhere.
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So youtube is fighting nazis by becoming nazis... sounds about right
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What I find really interesting about the Private SNAFU shorts is, although they're literal propaganda, the depictions of Japanese culture portrayed in them, shows a greater level of accuracy and care than what you see in modern "Japan and China are the same thing, right?" cartoons. Like, they correctly show people bowing with a straight back with arms at their sides, rather than the "both hands held together" bow that's actually from Thailand, which is typically used in American cartoons.
I used to go to my grandparents house often, and my grandfather, who was a WWII vet, used to put on recordings of old cartoons for me. It wasn't until i grew up a bit that i realized most of what i watched were old propaganda cartoons. I don't think it was intentional, they were older, obviously, so they would get these tapes of cartoons that were familiar to them. It just happened to be that much of it was war time cartoons.
So i grew up in the 80s knowing a lot of these. Aside a very 1960s style house, 2 tier fiberglass lampshades, rounded doorways, and wooden radios, my memories of them are filled with sitting near a big wooden box TV and classic cartoons. I'm glad i got to experience that.
I always have to laugh a little whenever I see old file footage of large numbers of Japanese soldiers from the era and realize that they are almost all extremely short and MANY of them have the trade mark "buck teeth" and small round glasses that the stereotype portrays them with. Point being, the propaganda posters were far more accurate than people would like to admit.
@@smgdfcmfah That's sort of how they do all cartoon characters, and they do it to everyone, even celebrities, they exaggerate (or don't) the details. I get that sometimes it's meant to be 'unflattering', but it's like these days... people *want* so desperately to be offended. For example, all the brands that had to change packaging, that sort of thing. Worse than children, make a bid deal out of everything, get overly emotional about it.
I think a lot of people now miss the entire point too, of propaganda, it's still used around the world in different forms. Some people cannot understand history, they learn nothing.
@@derealized797 Agreed. My point was that people get SO offended but it's not even much of a stretch - Elmer Fudd is far worse!
I watched all these Snafu cartoons, and while humorous they did teach American soldiers what not to do. Remember that there were still soldiers in the army, navy, ECT who could not really read, and these cartoons were used to teach them. My favorite one is about taking care of your weapons. Think that would be very helpful.
My father was a Marine, and I got so many laughs from when he told me about Private Snafu. 😂
Loved these kinds of old cartoons!!!
It's always a good day when you post big dawg🙏
Awesome! Always happy to help!
My two most favorite books and animations were Bartholomew and the 500 hats, and Ooblek. Ooblek fascinated me because I saw it only days after I had seen the origional Blob movie, which gave me nightmares for weeks😅
I met him when I was a kid. My mother was a reading resource specialist in a San Diego area school district. He gave her a personally signed first edition of one of his last books.
SNAFU- Situation Normal, All Fcuked Up!
My father was in the Navy (South Pacific) in WW2. A part of what he did in his duties in mine disposal / disarming was to be in training films about such. I'd love to see his films, if they still exist. I HAVE seen some still photos from them.
Reach out to the National Archives, they might be able to help.
@@zureichg Thanks!
Excellent research and fantastic video!
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it!
Brilliant. Thanks for this!
0:58 I swear everyone in this comment section had to have seen this clip
I don't recall ever seeing that one.
Never gets old lol
I remember seeing some Private SNAFU art painted on some WWII military equipment in some of the museums in Europe as a kid. When I got back state side people has not seen them and the films were not out to the public so I buttoned my lips as it were till they did get released in the 60's. However many did not see them till they were rereleased on the 50th anniversary of each being made.
ok I wasn't expected this but I'm happy to learn about this :D
Awesome! Hope you enjoyed it!
"The census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing the population."
I've seen most of those in the late seventies early eighties, I do miss the silly cartoons that were out back then.
Sooo just stumbled upon your channel and have to say, love the voice, and the presentation of your video. 👍🏾
Saw a similar book like Godivas in my dad's book shelf, in his personal office. Couldn't read back then, but that's an image you'll never forget. That, and a lot of other items vanished off that shelf, the day my parents realized a 3 and a half year old can stack furniture to reach whatever they want😂
Even more surprising were the WW2 army training films "Your Job in Germany" and "Our Job in Japan" written by him for the postwar occupation forces.
I love Dr. Seuss' dark art, he was an amazing artist always took me to that wiggly world.
Excellent narration.. thanks for producing this really interesting slice of biography on the good Dr. Seuss and several of his famous callaborators.
I have a copy of a book that was compiled by a college professor called Dr. Seuss Goes To War
It is full of his wartime material...
Also his Seven Sisters Godiva (adult rated material)
These books are a recomended read for any Dr. Seuss adult fan
Thank you for sharing this! IT was wonderful to watch and listen to... the history we rarely are given anywhere else...thank you.
Good job with the narration.
Nicely done , Thanks . Subscribed
2:07 man I wish I grew up with all of these kind of Dr Seuss cartoons and books😂
The Seuss movie The 5000 fingers of Dr. T is the BEST fever dream I ever seen! Live-action WILDNESS!
This is very interesting! Never realized this!
After watching this video, it actually does make more sense that Dr. Seuss himself did had a lot involvement in the Private Snafu shorts
yes I saw THAT 2000's cat in the hat XD the grinch was more in hindsight XD (although the bos guy yelling 'you're FIIRED!' was pretty funny)
Who knew??!! Now I do too. Subscribed.
The thumbnail is killing me 😂😂😂
1:31 definitely was for me, had it on VHS when I was 5 😂
At 13:45 ...LOL...FUBAR..."F*cked up beyond all recognition"...
As a child in the 80s, i use to pinpal Dr Seuss which started as a school project up until he died in 91.
I inherited "The Pocket Book of Boners" from my grandfather! Imagine reading this in the 5th grade, and having it taken away by the teacher - a couple times! Very funny book.
I subbed! Great video!
This Dr. Seuss influence became the inspiration for “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”, a cartoon series did influenced the Dr. Seuss formula, and it became a success.
He was a Sig-Ep brother. Told us bizarre stories back in the day.
I have a picture he made of himself looking in a mirror and the grinch is staring back at him it's great
Those military cartoons were not intended for children so they weren't really hidden, they were always intended for the mature adult military entertainment.
SNAFU has Mel Blanc’s voice. He’s less nasal than Bugs but it a similar sound.
My wife's great uncle may have inadvertently been a part of this idea. He was a Hollywood agent and producer, and he signed up at 31 for service as soon as it was possible. His unit was held up at the departure facility for troops in the Pacific for about a month, and every day, he would go to the health and safety lecture provided by the base doctor. One day, the doctor was delayed, and with a hall of restless troops, Uncle Ben took the microphone and basically did a stand up routine, while providing all of the information that the troops needed. But instead of troops ignoring it, they hooted and hollered.
Unbeknownst to Uncle Ben, the base's commanding general was in the audience that day. And when Ben was done, the general called him into his office and told him "I've sat through that boring lecture at least 100 times, but this is the first time I think the boys actually listened to what was said. You may not have planned it when you pick up that microphone, but you have yourself a job for the rest of the war!"
It should be mentioned that Uncle Ben's unit was ambushed on a Pacific island, and every man was lost.
Uncle Ben died in 2003 at the age of 91.
There is a store in St.Augustine, Fl that sells his adult artwork. Different side for sure!
Snafu looks like a great cartoon!😅 It's a shame how easily offended some people get today if this came out again.
Reminds me of a 'saner' Tex Avery!!!
Dr. Suess goes to war is a great book. It has alot of great art and is a neat look at the time period. Alot of the army instructional comics were reprinted and are available if you look for them.
They also do Dr.Seuss art exhibits with his paintings and sculptures that i totally recomend seeing if you can. The art is amazing.
Its funny ya know, i cant see that grinch grinning without also seeing tim curry
1:55 Isn’t that Stan Lee?
I think so😂
Sure was!
Came here to see who else saw that
It was not classified because of whatever style cartoom he made, private snafu for example was made and used by the USA military, thats why it was classified, it was specifically for their exclusive use.
Yep. People keep calling these cartoons banned or classified because of how raunchy they were but no they were made by the request of the government to train the new recruits back in a time when most of them would be illiterate. We also taught airmen to navigate with the stars by putting constellations overplayed on pinup girls.
Totally - classified for their exclusive use. But also to make sure that their training and techniques wouldn't get out in the open.
Well, there was zero chance that these could have been released widely under the Hays Code at that time. Absolutely would have been banned for their raunchy content. But obviously wide release wasn't the intention here.
I watched a WW2 training video here on UA-cam several years ago for operating a side gun on a bomber. Lots of physics about how bullets fired from a moving plane work, what attack angles fighters used, and what effective aiming principles to use. All in an entertaining package. Just the kind of training material you don't want to fall into enemy hands, but 70 years later not a big deal.
How could you cut off the Grinch before his ears were done uncurling?! You monster 👿
What I personally find MOST remarkable about this period in history was just HOW many future legends actually crossed paths with each other; Seuss and Warner Bros., (ostensibly Chuck Jones) Disney and Roald Dahl, the list goes on! At least one nice thig we can look back on from this time was how a single cause (a world-war) rallied the whole nation together, if only for a little while. =)
I noticed Mr Hook had the blonde bangs that Dennis the Menace would later have.
@@DM-kl4em Good point! I didn't even see that! =)
Very well made documentary!
Thanks so much!
Kind of surprising how some of those newspaper cartoons strike home today.
I want to see a parody: "Horton Hears The Who"!
"THE Who is on first."
The Who?
"Exactly."
@milascave2 " Who are you?!"
Norton Smears The Goo
Dartmouth has a Theodore Geisel room. It has a lot of his adult work.
Back then a 'boner' was a screwup, a mistake. There's an old Batman comic where the Joker is offended that Batman laughed at his 'boner'. Please explain these things better
Yep - this is exactly why I show the dictionary definition on-screen.
2:20 anybody else have a slim shady moment
Please stand up
Stan Lee and Dr. Seuss, the developers of "breaking it down Barney style" IYKYK.
Leading up to WWII, many men, from rural areas, had, maybe, a sixth-grade education. The women, though, went on to high school, and the reason for this was, the young boys helped make money for the family during the depression. It was like that all through the Appalachians and in the South, thus, illiteracy was high.
I am so going to share this ... sounds like a hoot.
Dr Seuss helped make the Private Snafu shorts?!
I've seen the Porky Pig Bbb bb bit at the Festival of Animation! But I do love the Adult Cartoons!
I have a DVD of war time cartoons with Private Snafu & Mr. Hook. A few of the cartoons have commentaries by animation historians. And then some have completely useless ones by John Kricfalusi with a girl "animation student" and some other guy. They have zero interesting information. John K. just says things like "Chuck Jones's Mr. Hook cartoons are gay because they don't have enough naked ladies in them," while the "animation student" giggles.
At the time I listened to the commentary I wondered why the heck that "animation student" was even there. Now we know the disturbing truth. (I don't remember the name of the girl, or if she was one of the ones who went public with their allegations.)
awesome.. i never knew Dr Seuss was this cool
0:31 What is that cartoon with the genie?
"Our Friend The Atom". Describing that discovering atomic energy was like letting a Genie out of it's bottle,
and could be used for constructive purposes, not just atomic bombs.
@@jsl151850bWonder if this Genie's design influenced the design of one from Disney's ALADDIN (I mean their are some interesting similarities between the two)!
When i was in OSUT. They showed the booby trap episode in our class on IED's and landmines
I never saw the cat in the hat movie, after watching this I'm glad I didn't
The 1971 made-for-TV animated version is pretty good. The more recent big-budget movie is … unfortunate.
Love the helmet in the background
You have a good presentation and voice, but that “ Rocketeer “ helmet NOICE ‼️where did you acquire it from ?
If you think these are weird, google or do a wikisearch for the " Uncensored Doctor Suess 🤔 ? " It's really risque in some aspects !
What is the name of the movie that you used at the end of this video? I don't recognize it. Thank you! Looks very interesting…
I didn't know that Seuss wrote for Snafu. I knew about Snafu being made by the Looney Tunes crew... But, yeah, didn't know.
Shouldn't be too surprising, since they made a Looney Tunes adaptation of Horton Hatches the Egg.
My mother, a secretary to the top brass at Alcoa aka Aluminum Company of America, in Los Angles in the 1940ies had a interesting story. She was secretary to a VP in charge of shipping and one day he went to lunch at his usual time BUT did NOT return to work for 5 hours. When he did, mom said he was as white as a sheet! He told her he and another VP were having lunch and discussing business and the other VP wondered why they were shipping so much aluminum to New Mexico where there were no airplane plants or other Defense Plants. Mom's boss said, "I don't know, maybe it has something to do with a bomb." With that the two VPs were arrested by men in black suits and taken "down town" where they spent the next 5 hours convincing the suits they were NOT spys and had NO knowledge of ANY new type (read Atom) bomb being developed at a plant in New Mexico (at Los Alamos)!
WILD!
@@EbenBransome It is ALWAYS good when the government accidentally confirms what EVERYBODY knows! You have to remember Atomic Fission the basis OF THE BOMB was discovered in 1938 and was widely publicized.
With Oak Ridge TN not that far away from Alcoa, it's not surprising that the authorities jumped in so quickly. The irony is that the interrogators might not have known that much about the actual bomb.
Dr Seuss: *makes wholesome books and morals*
Also Dr Seuss:
My goodness, my goodness. A friend does return.
The Other Vault has come, a lesson we must learn. For he brings two things; entertain and great truth.
The truth about the toons of one good ol' Dr. Seuss.
Come sit, like, surbscribe and more.
For we shall see what TOV has in store!
Ha! Was wondering what you'd come up with for this one. Fantastic, as always!
@@theothervault Dr. Seuss is a classic, a classic it's true.
So creative comments? Those I can make, for you.
Anyone else pause the video and read as much of the book pages as one could. (use the . or , key for frame by frame.)
I never knew that frame by frame command before. Thank you!!!
He also worked with a young man named Stanley Lieber aka STAN LEE with those cartoons
Dr Seus IS AWESOME!
THE THUMBNAIL IS CRAZY! the cat has more rizz than me :(
Then there's his book of "lost art" paintings, some erotic. Rather Odd Myopic Woman, Seven Lady Godivas...
Yup, I have a replica of his "Plethora of cats"
When the good doctors first wife was fatally ill, he started balling her replacement. She found out and self-deleted.
I never knew any of this, my mind is officially blown
"With the help of lunney toons" welp that explains it
2:37 he actually was a doctor a Doctor of laughter😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 because I'm still laughing at all the s*** that he put out especially with the cat in the hat movie that was some funny f****** s***