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THE CHRONICLES OF KELV: Smüki Above is a storyboard for “Smüki”, the only cartoon on Kelv’s lone television network in the late 1950’s. “Smüki” was meant to be political propaganda for children, but the writers were actually anti-governement radicals and injected a contradictory meaning into the story-lines. The animators however were secretly in support of a third political agenda. The cartoon ended up having three conflicting layers of propaganda which combined to make a confusing cartoon that kids didn’t much care for. “Smüki” was cancelled in 1961 and re-launched as a newspaper comic strip called “Shmüki” which was noticeably similar: Also: Smüki made a cameo in this episode of The Meth Minute:

THE CHRONICLES OF KELV: Smüki

Above is a storyboard for “Smüki”, the only cartoon on Kelv’s lone television network in the late 1950’s. “Smüki” was meant to be political propaganda for children, but the writers were actually anti-governement radicals and injected a contradictory meaning into the story-lines. The animators however were secretly in support of a third political agenda.

The cartoon ended up having three conflicting layers of propaganda which combined to make a confusing cartoon that kids didn’t much care for. “Smüki” was cancelled in 1961 and re-launched as a newspaper comic strip called “Shmüki” which was noticeably similar:

Also: Smüki made a cameo in this episode of The Meth Minute:

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