Pietro
10-06-2001, 02:23 PM
I found this interesting book at my local library called
"That's Enough Folks!: Black Images in Cartoons (1900-1960)."
It holds a very interesting piece about a Lantz-Oswald cartoon:
SUNNY SOUTH (1931):
The cartoon opens as Oswald 's girlfriend and his friends wait at the train station for his arrival in Dixieland. Oswald arrives as the band plays "Dixie." His arrival kicks off a celebration and Oswald and his girl start by doing a cakewalk dance down the main street. Meanwhile a small black boy with thick white lips shines the shoes of a tall black man wearing a minstrel's attire. After he applies the polish, he straps a brush to the bottoms of his feet then finishes the shine by doing a soft-shoe dance on the man's shoes. Oswald and his girl play a brief saxophone duet, and then Oswald drops to one knee and says, "Mammy!" Next the little black shoeshine boy eats a huge slice of watermelon as he dances on a pile of shoes while the farmer sleeps nearby. The farmer wakes up and is so irate that he throws a watermelon at the little boy. He misses and the melon hits Oswald in the face. Oswald swallows the melon and then spits the seeds out of his mouth like a machine-gun bullets, aiming them at the farmer. The seeds hit the farmer on his rear end. He leaps into the air before falling and landing on his rear end as the cartoon ends.
It seems that this Oswald cartoon is likely banned.
Very interesting, maybe Jon could look into this
for his "Censored Cartoons Page."
-Pietro
"That's Enough Folks!: Black Images in Cartoons (1900-1960)."
It holds a very interesting piece about a Lantz-Oswald cartoon:
SUNNY SOUTH (1931):
The cartoon opens as Oswald 's girlfriend and his friends wait at the train station for his arrival in Dixieland. Oswald arrives as the band plays "Dixie." His arrival kicks off a celebration and Oswald and his girl start by doing a cakewalk dance down the main street. Meanwhile a small black boy with thick white lips shines the shoes of a tall black man wearing a minstrel's attire. After he applies the polish, he straps a brush to the bottoms of his feet then finishes the shine by doing a soft-shoe dance on the man's shoes. Oswald and his girl play a brief saxophone duet, and then Oswald drops to one knee and says, "Mammy!" Next the little black shoeshine boy eats a huge slice of watermelon as he dances on a pile of shoes while the farmer sleeps nearby. The farmer wakes up and is so irate that he throws a watermelon at the little boy. He misses and the melon hits Oswald in the face. Oswald swallows the melon and then spits the seeds out of his mouth like a machine-gun bullets, aiming them at the farmer. The seeds hit the farmer on his rear end. He leaps into the air before falling and landing on his rear end as the cartoon ends.
It seems that this Oswald cartoon is likely banned.
Very interesting, maybe Jon could look into this
for his "Censored Cartoons Page."
-Pietro