Jim S has a request for help in identifying two short cartoons he saw many years ago. I myself have no ideas...
About six decades back I saw two animated shorts that stayed
with me over the years but I have no idea what they are called
or how to find them.
1. The first cartoon was shown to us incoming freshmen
at UCLA in Fall '66. In it a young boy, constantly berated by his parents,
methodically goes about making some sort of device while ignoring
their criticisms. At the end of the cartoon the boy pushes a button
and his parents disappear. The audience went wild
and cheered. The style of the cartoon was perhaps influenced
by UPA and/or Canadian animation of the early sixties.
I tried researching same but only found sites like
"Children push their parents buttons". Less than useless
2. The second cartoon was shown in my Sunday School
in about 1964. It was that bane of existence an "educational"
short but it wasn't either Disney or a Bell Telephone Science effort
to make it bearable. In it several boys are shown playing
games and in mild childish conflicts while on the soundtrack
a song is sung/chanted repeatedly--"Oh, well, boys will be boys"
The cartoon showed how this early behavior leads to the most
destructive warfare in later years. At the end the song is
chanted once again as visually the childhood roughhouse
visually morphs into near apocalyptic annihilation.
A net search for this cartoon unfortunately only turned
up all too many contemporary news stories.
Does anyone have any idea how to find out the names
of these cartoons?"{
About six decades back I saw two animated shorts that stayed
with me over the years but I have no idea what they are called
or how to find them.
1. The first cartoon was shown to us incoming freshmen
at UCLA in Fall '66. In it a young boy, constantly berated by his parents,
methodically goes about making some sort of device while ignoring
their criticisms. At the end of the cartoon the boy pushes a button
and his parents disappear. The audience went wild
and cheered. The style of the cartoon was perhaps influenced
by UPA and/or Canadian animation of the early sixties.
I tried researching same but only found sites like
"Children push their parents buttons". Less than useless
2. The second cartoon was shown in my Sunday School
in about 1964. It was that bane of existence an "educational"
short but it wasn't either Disney or a Bell Telephone Science effort
to make it bearable. In it several boys are shown playing
games and in mild childish conflicts while on the soundtrack
a song is sung/chanted repeatedly--"Oh, well, boys will be boys"
The cartoon showed how this early behavior leads to the most
destructive warfare in later years. At the end the song is
chanted once again as visually the childhood roughhouse
visually morphs into near apocalyptic annihilation.
A net search for this cartoon unfortunately only turned
up all too many contemporary news stories.
Does anyone have any idea how to find out the names
of these cartoons?"{
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