Sometimes they ask me: "okay, but why this obsession with old American cartoons?"
Well, cartoons are the way of storytelling that has always come most naturally, pleasantly, and spontaneously to me, and those "primitive" ones have a particular charm, a strong evocative power. I was pleasantly surprised to find how much this perception is shared even by very young people, chronologically and culturally light years away from that period. Of course, even in the following decades, formidable cartoons, authentic masterpieces, were drawn. But those from the '20s and '30s, the music that accompanied them, have (at least for me) something more. They are not vintage; they are truly "ancient": they represent an era and the origins of a world, they are almost mythical archetypes. In cartoon language, they correspond to the "land far, far away" of fairy tales.