Movies @ Main Presents: The History and Trivia Behind Looney Tunes Cartoons January 17, 2009

In the 1920s, while Walt Disney was making cartoons based on faithful adaptations of Brothers Grimm and other European fairy tales, other animation studios chose to twist, upend and re-invent them. Join guest lecturer Gregory Clark, professor of art history at the University of the South, as he discusses how Warner Bros and M-G-M animators imaginatively remade the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the late 1930s and early 1940s to reflect the themes and concerns of pre-World War II America (screening not appropriate for young children).

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