Animation for adults, Cartoons for kids!
During The Silent Age Of Animation, as well as The Golden Age Of Animation, cartoons were aimed at adults as well as children. From simple history of shooting black and white film moving to live action in Technicolor was a very expensive and complicated, however making colour animation was simpler. As live-action colour films became predominant, it killing off the “X factor” of animation and the market for shorts cartoons eventually died. Warner Bros and Looney Tunes did still produce some of the most memorable shorts, which when later repackaged for television were such a success it changed many of their main characters into pop icons. With the only long-format cartoons been produced by one studio, Disney. With the reluctance of cinemas to show short run cartoons they retreated to our televisions. This naturally forced animations to be targeted at a much younger audience, with moral guidelines enforced by the television stations. This left adult focused animations with nowhere to go or fit! Also with many non-mainstream animation houses making films, which were never, meant for general release. However television shows like South Park and the Simpsons can return not only be profit to these same television companies but also target a much older audience once again. From the outset Eastern animation houses have always favored a more detailed storyline as a posed to the short comedy outline used in American animations like the Simpsons. However from the book by Richard Adams of Tales From Watership Down became Watership Down the animated film? With its strong dark under tones, put paid to the idea that cartoons are just for kids with it strong adult theme of survival death and loss. With the help of the Internet and sites like You Tube expanding their reach to so many different ages and languages animations and cartoons will forever battle over light and dark issues and all we can do is sit and watch!