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Gerald McBoing Boing
An animated short film produced by United Productions of America. This was a given wide release by Columbia Pictures on November 2, 1950. -
McCarthyism
Senator Joseph McCarthy drove fear into the minds of many Americans as he made proclamations of communists spies and that there were 205 members in congress who were communists. He and chief counsel Roy Cohn interrogated many people in the suspicions that they were communists. -
Civil Rights Movement
From 1955 to 1968, many African Americans rose together in protest demanding that they get the same civil rights as the Whtie Man.
During this time, many civil rights groups were made with powerful and influential civil rights activists backing them up. -
Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear is a family cartoon character who has appeared in numerous comic books, animated television shows and films. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show. -
Huckleberry Hound
Huckleberry "Huck" Hound is a fictional cartoon character. He is a blue dog that speaks with a Southern drawl and has a relaxed, sweet, and well-intentioned personality. -
Sleeping Beauty
Filled with jealousy, the evil witch Maleficent curses Princess Aurora to die on her 16th birthday. Thanks to Aurora's guardian fairies, she only falls into a deep sleep that can be ended with true love's kiss. -
Quick Draw McGraw
Quick Draw Mcgraw was a dimwitted and lanky mustang (horse) who caused much chaos in the Old West. If he could get his own six shooter out of his holster at all, he would usually shoot the wrong man. He sometimes would assume the identity of vigilante El Kabong. -
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Rocky, a plucky flying squirrel and Bullwinkle, a bumbling but lovable moose, have a series of ongoing adventures. Rocky & Bullwinkle is known for mixing puns, cultural and topical satire, and self-referential humor, it appealed to adults as well as children -
The Flinstones
Revolving around a modern Stone Age family, the Flinstones convinced a generation of children that dinosaurs and humans lived on the earth at the same time. The show was inspired by "The Honeymooners". -
101 Dalmations
Dalmatian Pongo spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat. -
The Jetsons
This popular primetime cartoon show features the Jetson family living in a utopian future. People live in housing in the sky, work a three-day workweek, drive aerocars that look like flying saucers and have incredible conveniences that leave them with plenty of leisure time. -
JFK Assassination
John F. Kennedy was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States. His death marked the fourth successful assassination of an American president. -
Vietnam War
From 1955 to 1975, Vietnam has been in a civil war in hope that it wouldn't become a communist country. The U.S. got involved in August of 1964 with the Gulf of Tonkin and Escalation. -
Spider Man
The primary signature character for Marvel Comics, "Spider-Man," is the alter-ego of Peter Parker, science student at a New York City university. Doing whatever a spider can, spins a web at any size and catches thieves just like flies. -
Scooby Doo
Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise, comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. Where the gang travels the world and solves many mysteries together. -
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther is a heroic, moral cartoon cat with pink fur and the manners of an English aristocrat. In most of his cartoons, he stumbles into a difficult situation and stoically endeavors to make the best of it. -
Josie and the Pussycats
Josie and the Pussycats is an American animated television series, based upon the Archie Comics comic book series created by Dan DeCarlo. Produced for Saturday morning television by Hanna-Barbera Productions, sixteen episodes of Josie and the Pussycats aired on CBS during the 1970-71 television season, and were rerun during the 1971-72 season. -
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Sabrina the Teenage Witch is an American low-budget animated sitcom television series produced by Filmation that aired on CBS from 1971 to 1974. It's a toon version of the Archie Comics witch who uses her powers to aide the uncertainty of adolescence. -
Jackson 5ive
This show was a Saturday morning cartoon series produced by Rankin/Bass and Motown Productions on ABC from September 11, 1971 to October 14, 1972. A fictionalized portrayal of the careers of Motown recording group The Jackson 5. -
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Albert and his friends. -
Schoolhouse Rock
A generation of American kids grew up singing the catchy tunes that were a integral part of "Schoolhouse Rock." These animated shorts incorporate songs that illustrate educational subjects such as history, science, multiplication tables and basic grammar. -
The Addams Family
The Addams Family is not your typical family, they take delight in most of the things that "normal" people would be terrified of. Gomez Adams is an extremely wealthy man, and is able to indulge his wife Morticia's every desire: be it cultivation of poisonous plants, or a candlelit dinner in a graveyard. People visiting the Addams Family just don't seem to appreciate the 7 foot tall butler "Lurch" or the helping hand named "Thing". -
The New Adventures of Batman
The "Dynamic Duo" fights crime in Gotham City, encountering classic Batman rogues as well as some original villains. Complicating matters is Bat-Mite, a well-meaning imp from another dimension called Ergo, who considers himself Batman's biggest fan. As a result, he wears a variant of Batman’s costume and attempts to help him, only to often create more problems. -
Godzilla
An animated adaptaion of the Japanese Godzilla films co-produced betweeen Hanna-Barbera Productions and Toho. A team of scientists call upon gigantic sea monster Godzilla to save them when they are in peril. -
HIV/AIDS
Various reports came out in California and New York about men who were diagnosed with rare forms of cancer and/or pneumonia. After further research it became known as the STD HIV/AIDS. -
The Smurfs
The Smurfs is an American-Belgian animated fantasy-comedy television series that aired on NBC from September 12, 1981, to December 2, 1989. Made by Hanna-Barbera Productions, it is based on the Belgian comic series, created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo and aired for 256 episodes. -
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Three chipmunk brothers, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, have been adopted by and are living with Dave. Each episode finds the boys getting into trouble and new and unusual situations. -
Dennis the Menace
America's most well-known little terror, Dennis the Menace, gets into numerous scrapes and adventures with his dog Ruff and his friends Joey and Margaret. This typically involves some means of tormenting Dennis's hapless next-door neighbor, Mr. Wilson. -
DuckTales
DuckTales is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation.The globe-trotting treasure-hunting money-making adventures of billionaire Scrooge McDuck and his nephews Hewey, Dewey and Louie -
The Little Mermaid
In Disney's beguiling animated romp, rebellious 16-year-old mermaid Ariel is fascinated with life on land. On one of her visits to the surface, which are forbidden by her controlling father, King Triton, she falls for a human prince. -
The Simpsons
This long-running animated comedy focuses on the eponymous family in the town of Springfield in an unnamed U.S. state. The family includes loving, blue-haired matriarch Marge, troublemaking son Bart, overachieving daughter Lisa and baby Maggie.
