Animation (Attack Machines)

Animation is a recent thing, even though American animation before the mid-November 1946 purge still being popular. The industry's center is in the United States.

State of animation before the Purge
Animation just before the Purge was a children's or family affair. A number of juggernauts were making their own theatrical shorts, most notably MGM with their Tom and Jerry and Tex Avery cartoons, Paramount with their Fleischer ones, WB with their Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies and obviously Disney itself. The last of these companies was so ambitious that by then they had released eleven feature films - three of them combining animation with live-action. Despite all of that they were troubling in this phase and laid off most of their staff. Their latest film - Song of the South - was released on November 12 - just three days before the Purge.