backstory:
This tasty little Thanksgiving tale was born in the early days of big audience network television, in a simpler and less political time. Rankin / Bass really knew their holiday cartoons. After some airings on NBC, the family film did scurry around on the VHS format when that format was starved for material, it was never brought to the DVD table (officially). So feast your eyes on a forgotten story.
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REVIEWS (OURS, YOURS, WHATEVER...GIVE US YOUR THOUGHTS ON Motm)
Nod Review
Mouse on the Mayflower is one of those gems from many Baby Boomers childhood that rang in the holiday right after Halloween every year. Yes, it’s extremely dated, a bit racist and shows a very one-sided view of a very dark period in American History. And it’s basically a story about a little church mouse! Honestly, no one alive today knows what really happened centuries ago in any era. Even though this little cartoon may get a lot of the facts wrong or white-wash some of the darker sides of the early settlers and how they treated the Indigenous people. The program DOES have a historical value because it shows how we used to think about certain events in US history.
OK, enough classroom talk, here’s my straight review of the Mouse on the Mayflower:
Mouse on the Mayflower is one of those gems from many Baby Boomers childhood that rang in the holiday right after Halloween every year. Yes, it’s extremely dated, a bit racist and shows a very one-sided view of a very dark period in American History. And it’s basically a story about a little church mouse! Honestly, no one alive today knows what really happened centuries ago in any era. Even though this little cartoon may get a lot of the facts wrong or white-wash some of the darker sides of the early settlers and how they treated the Indigenous people. The program DOES have a historical value because it shows how we used to think about certain events in US history.
OK, enough classroom talk, here’s my straight review of the Mouse on the Mayflower: