American Pop

American Pop is an animated, historically conceived story of four generations beginning with Zalmie, a turn-of-the-century immigrant who cuts school to become a burlesque vaudevillian and perform with busty chorus girls and winds up an errand boy for the mob. The story follows his son Benny, a keyboard genius who is cut down in his prime by a half-dead German storm trooper and continues with Tony (the child Benny left behind), who travels to San Francisco’s underground subculture of Haight-Asbury and the early psychedelic rock scene. His son, Little Pete, parlays a back alley education into career as a rock idol.