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lmao i have no idea where this book is!!!!!

whoops updated the wrong book i'm still on 135 on this one

whoops updated the wrong book i'm still on 135 on this one

Took a pretty long break as I caught up with the digital companion. Reading this book is like reading 3, I swear.

This section's big suggestion is that the labor systems around animation snapped into place in such a way that a lot of the earlier minstrel imagery was just codified in - the industry moved too fast and the same talent spread these ideas through multiple companies and they just took root.

Honestly a more comprehensive look at the early animation industry, though in a way that sometimes feels like it's straying from the original point. We've moved on to how labor in making animation has changed over time - which I believe the point here is that absent singular creators, minstrel motifs just got baked in to animation's style, stopping being purposeful to just becoming "the way it's done"

This first section has been a real tour through the history of animation, how it started out on a vaudeville stage, and how the ties between blackface and animation are things even the animators at the time were aware of, and leaning into.

Finished with only the intro and it already feels like a huge undertaking of hundreds of years of history. Combining it with the companion website lets you see a lot of what's being talked about here, which makes concrete just how odd and long-running minstrelsy has been, and continues to be.

I wish Die Antwoord would Die Antless, know what I'm saying?