>>153614701Can't find a better quality picture of this my bad
>>153614701What the fuck
>>153614701I wish there was a better picture of this memo, honestly it seems suspect.My hot take on this is, these types of jokes in animation were over 30 years old when this memo was written, so why hadn't American animation evolved beyond them. Why were American animators still chaffing at the idea of being told to stop pulling from the same well.
>>153615222Honestly they are just what normies consider what all cartoon gags are (Not denying they did get used alot)
>>153614701Why were 70s cartoons so sanitized and shit, was it because of the Vietnam War or smth?
>>153615326It's because the economy went to shit and Hanna Barbera basically developed a monopoly on TV animation that was centered around cutting as many costs as possible.
>>153615362Actually Bill and Joe were against this but the execs said no
>>153615496I miss when America was more worried about the president digging a tunnel to the Vatican than literal entertainment.
>>153615496>Multiple generations grow up with Tom and Jerry shorts>Literally as soon as they pull Tom and Jerry off the air America's economy goes tits up and the country enters its most unstable decade since the Civil War>Things start to improve when Tom and Jerry are put on TV againWe need to make Tom and Jerry as widely available as possible. If past patterns hold the state of the world will immediately begin improve.
>>153616384Makes me miss Ted Turner even tho he fucked over Swat Kats with the same reason but he opened up with cartoons in later years
>>153614701it's still like this today, I was on a specific undisclosed comedy animation where the storyboard guidelines said no wild takes allowed
>>153616508Ted didn't can Swat Kats, a low-level corpo did.
>>153616663Ah i see
>>153616501>tom and jerry comes back as high quality theater shorts >inflation ends>racism ends
>>153616501Nah, things got better after Simpsons.
>>153616843It kinda didn't
>>153614701I doubt the veracity of this memo. It seems like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in that it's made up to make it look like the guys you're against are openly admitting to the things you accuse them of. It's just too on the nose.
>>153614701>This is why the 70s sucked.https://youtu.be/UFjjtYRVtmk?si=A_4g4VhTOXG_kgk-&t=3
>>153614701This memo is from the 1980s, but it exists because of the 70s.
>>153616501No, they still aired Tom and Jerry shorts during the 70s and 80s (though I think I remembered still seeing them in early 90s). It's just that it was probably on syndicated channels rather than the big networks like ABCI almost want to say they stopped being on broadcast TV during the late 90s but I'm not sure.
>>153614701>those restrictionsInsane, even by US network TV standards. Now I can see why so many of the early What a Cartoon shorts went overboard with wild takes and slapstick, being able to do your own thing after working within guidelines like that must've been freeing.
>>153621481CBS was just doing Big NFL’s dirty work by keeping knowledge of CTE from children
>>153614701What even was allowed at that point? It sounds more restrictive than the comics code. This is a cartoon about a cat and mouse. You'll see more violence if you have a literal pet cat and I have the scars to prove it.
>>153614701I can't read
>>153623500As far as I can tell from that picture, it says>Regarding Network Approval of Comedic Material>1. Program Practices at CBS has ruled that a character that has been hit or in a fight CAN NOT have:>a. Eyes at halfmast>b. Eyes twirling>c. Tongue hanging out>d. Hurt or dazed look>e. Closed eyes>f. Circle of stars around head>2. No expression of pain or dazed expression.>3. The character can react with frustration or anger at having been foiled again.>4. The networks will NOT ACCEPT any wild takes on characters!>This means that any reaction where the body comes apart, becomes distorted, eyes pop out, and the chin drops to the floor, etc. will NOT be accepted. Please DON'T DO IT!!!>[drawn examples of a wild take and a dazed expression]>NOT ACCEPTABLEPosting the transcript because of the bad image quality. It's nowhere near impossible to read the text, but it is annoying.Most of those restrictions confuse me. Was it about trying to censor violence for the sake of the kids in the audience, or what? I feel like kids usually find those kinds of slapstick elements funny rather than scary.
>>153615362But even stuff like new cartoons of classic characters likeTom and Jerry and Popeye were sanitized during this decade.What happened?
>>153623912Because of the exact same things that post was talking about? Why would it matter that they were based on legacy properties if they were new cartoons being produced under the same pressures?
>>153614701What's the difference?
>>153614701> Super friends> SuckedNo.
>>153623976what where is this from?
