Tuesday, November 12, 1946. Song of the South. Winters of the 1940s.

Disney released Song of the South, the first production to combine animation with live action.

The cartoon is considered a masterpiece of animation, and is controversial for being racist.  It's never been released in a home format.

When I was a kid, Disney used to run it in a compressed form, or perhaps snippet form, on its Sunday evening television program.

Regionally, the Rocky Mountain West was getting pummeled by a  major snow storm.

It's often noted in certain circles, but not generally discussed, but the weather of the 1940s in its entirety was odd and severe.  1940-1942 featured an event called the 1940-42 Global Anomaly which featured a strong, prolonged El Niño and two of the coldest European winters of the 20th century, but unusually warm temperatures in Alaska and the Arctic.  The War Winters of the 1940s were very bitter, with the UK experiencing its worst winter in 1940 since 1895.  The Thames and Berlin Canals froze.  The 1940 Armistice Day Storm was deadly in the U.S.  1940 in the US saw the horrific 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard.  The Winter of 1946-1947 was catastrophically cold and snowy in the United Kingdom.  The Winter of 1947 would be catastrophically severe in the American West.

When these are considered they're sometimes considered as singular localized events, but they are not, as the War Winters and the 40-42 Anamonly demonstrate. Some global weather phenomenon was going on globally, just has the warm weather of the 1930s had been.  In today's News item, we can see that what was going on in the UK and would go on in the West in 1947, was already expressing itself in the Rocky Mountain West, and indeed it had been since at least 1940.

The News ran a radio log for radio programming, just like a lot of newspapers currently run a television log.

The Exchange National Bank of Chicago opened the country’s first drive-in banking service. The facility had ten drive up tellers, which is quite a lot.

Last edition:

Monday, November 11, 1946. Proclamation 2710.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Harry S. Truman, Music, Opera, Truman, Veterans Day