. . . Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes from Warner Bros. 1925-1950 Golden Age had a social agenda, it's hard not to look for one in FOX-TERROR. Obviously, Warner intends the title character here to represent the American One Per Cent. The fox has just one thing on his mind: plundering the chickens. The chickens, of course, are meant to represent We, the 99%. The mostly ineffectual "guardian" rooster and "watch" dog stand in here for the U.S. Congress and legal system Constitutionally charged with safe-guarding the 99% from Tyrannical One Per Centers such as Britain's King George III. As FOX-TERROR documents, the Congressional/Rooster/Dog had become the easily bamboozled dumbest among us by the 1950s. Like the little chicken in this cartoon, We the People keep yanking our Congressional/Cop/Courts "Who-are-you-going-to-call? Trust Busters!" alarm chain, but Congress and the Police no longer even bother to answer the calls coming in from the Common Man (or Chicken). Warner appends an optimistic close to this animated short. Few could muster such Hope today.
Review of Fox-Terror
