. . . caps sporting protruding murdered animal tails from the back, Davy Crockett's future Dizzy Mob Profiteers plant such headgear atop their figurehead Mickey's noggin in this brief cartoon. Obviously, the long game being played by the Dizzy Gang here is to conflate Mickey with Crockett. What do this seemingly ill-matched pair have in common? For one thing, they're both rodent traitors infamous for messing up the U. S. Congress. In order to preserve his precious Steamboat Willie avatar from copycat doodlers, Mickey and his Money Handlers have suborned Congress to quadruple copyrights on EVERYTHING created by EVERYBODY for unheard of eons, choking off artistic opportunity across the planet. Meanwhile, Crockett died in a desperate and eventually successful attempt to steal a huge chunk of land from Mexico in order to make the long-freed People of Color enslaved and abused laborers all over again. Dizzy would have the gall not only to rewrite History, but even to give Davy a non-white sidekick apparently suffering from Stockholm Syndrome!
Review of R'coon Dawg
R'coon Dawg
(1951)
About four years before Mr. Parker popularized . . .
21 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers