🌟 POGO ANIMATED CARTOON: Lost and Found!🌟 скачать в хорошем качестве

🌟 POGO ANIMATED CARTOON: Lost and Found!🌟

This is a rare bit of animation history: the Pogo TV special that never was. The satirical cartoon strip set in the Okefenokee Swamp had a feverish following in the 1950s, but by the late ‘60s it was beginning to lose steam as Walt Kelly became seriously ill and partially blind. Warner Bros. convinced him to sell them the rights to do an animated TV special in 1969, but it failed to capture any of the charm of the original strip. Chuck Jones just did not "get" funky, double-talking characters like Albert the Alligator, Mam'zelle Hepzibah, Porky Pine and Howland Owl and turned them into shallow, slapstick caricatures. Kelly was disgusted with the result and determined to launch his own TV special, though it never got beyond this animated story-board stage. Kelly did virtually all of this on his own, providing all the voices and hand-drawing and coloring the frames individually. He finished it shortly before he died of diabetic complications at age 60. Long thought to have been lost forever, this gem resurfaced in 2012 with no explanation attached. I had to do a bit of detective work to figure out what it was all about. I think it’s beautiful, and a poignant sendoff to a beloved figure in comic strip history. This curiosity is remarkable for yet another reason. Its message is environmental: we are ruining the landscape with our carelessness and our greed. At a time (1969) when the only environmental message was, "Give a hoot! Don't pollute!" - or, even worse, "Don't be a litterbug" - Kelly was way ahead of his time. This philosophy was summed up by the ultimate Pogo statement: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”