As you can see, it wasn’t all fun and games. In fact it was never fun and games. You had all the basics of the boomer childhood, beginning with the birthright of every child growing up in the post-50s world: the right to crappy, slapdash animation passed off as “modern.” The first picture shows us a scene from the Wizard of Oz strip, executed in a style that would make Jay Ward smile. At the bottom, a riveting scene from a filmstrip about leaves. They’ll ask to play it over and over again!

I wonder how many kids actually fainted from excitement when Mom put in “The Story of Clocks” for the sixth time.