Paul Bunyan part 2 of 2

Disney's 1958 production short animation.
At "sixty-three ax-handles high" and with a big blue ox for a sidekick, our next hero, Paul Bunyan was a perfect subject for a Disney animated featurette.
From his early days as a giant baby washed up on the shores of a seaside town, to his fame as the greatest lumberjack that ever lived, everything about him was bigger then life. Legend has it that he formed the Grand Titons, built Pike's Peak, and is responsible for the Aurora Borealis, all retold here in grand Disney tradition.

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Film & Animation

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• disney
• american
• legends
• short
• animation
• paul
• bunyan
• lumberjack
• blue
• ox
• hero
• grand
• titons

[ugocrazy]

Much freakin' out here... This is a tale of americana. Now this doesn't promote wanton destruction of our beloved nature, it puts forward hard work, friendship, loyalty, honor and kindness. Now does that ring a bell? Sounds to me like good ol' North American values.

Right, this goes against the new millennium"s eco-sensitivity, but keep in mind that the united states were not made being careful not to hurt nature.

This cartoon illustrate what was, there are lessons here. Learn them.

[Shirraz87]

umm when i was little i never quite understood how paul bunyan lost that contest. it always looks like hes kicking butt.

i feel like people are being overly sensitive about a Disney Cartoon... >.>

[inFAMOUS581]

what a fucking idiot i woud fucking crush that log chopper 9000

[Canemikat]

@Shirraz87 Disney is successful and that's why its under scrutiny so much. If some little animation company did something controversial no one would think much of it. But because its Disney and its so successful and it has a message of positivity people scrutinize every last single second of everything the company is involved with. But the company is not the studio.

[tyrongkojy]

@ugocrazy Where are those NOT values?

[tyrongkojy]

@ugocrazy Where are those NOT values?

[tyrongkojy]

"Go" Sorry

[tyrongkojy]

"Ho Paul, you've already put all of US out of work!" Ah, children's shows plot holes. So fun to find them.

[tokyomop]

I just think it's funny as hell that those loggers are all anti-train! Fuck the trains, we don't need 'em!

[TherealRNO]

@MattFerrantino: Plus, were it not for the core settlers who had the mindset of this giant tall tale (including our forefathers who begot the story, telling it through word of mouth prior to books), we wouldn't have had the progress of the digital age, because it is because of lumberjacks & other hard-working middle-class Americans that people had the houses they lived & worked in. If not for land being remolded to fit the American Dream, the tech toys we have now wouldn't exist.

[TherealRNO]

@MattFerrantino: to your comments, i love tech as much as any (heck, why else why would we be watching these classics on the internet), but people have become too lazy due to the advancement of tech; if we lose our legendary roots (founded by our forefathers & tall tales like this one), we lose a piece of our heritage & honestly, if the internet had a blackout, only people from the 80s & earlier would be able to survive, having lived without the internet before.

[mechatech70]

the salesman is standing up to a giant to sell his saw. ... Man's got cajones.