Blackface gag?

[alstin]

Is there a blackface gag in "Beauty and the Beast"(Freleng; 1934)? The Censored Cartoon Page says that there isn't but The Total Toon Tome says that there is!!!
:confused: :confused: :confused:

[Paul Penna]

Originally posted by alstin
Is there a blackface gag in "Beauty and the Beast"(Freleng; 1934)? The Censored Cartoon Page says that there isn't but The Total Toon Tome says that there is!!!
:confused: :confused: :confused:

Not a blackface gag in the strict sense, but Robinson Crusoe's Man Friday appears in a shot of the book cover.

There are also spittoon, bare buttocks and belching gags, plus a Flip the Frog look-alike.

[alstin]

Originally posted by Paul Penna


Not a blackface gag in the strict sense, but Robinson Crusoe's Man Friday appears in a shot of the book cover.

There are also spittoon, bare buttocks and belching gags, plus a Flip the Frog look-alike.

What's spittoon?:confused: :confused: :confused:

[Paul Penna]

Originally posted by alstin


What's spittoon?:confused: :confused: :confused:

Those squat, brass-colored vessels with the wide rim (looks sort of like a short, fat vase) that you see on the floor in some older cartoons, often in saloons but also just about anywhere they wanted to use one for a gag. In the cartoons, they're often struck or hit accidentally, accompanied by a loud bell sound effect. In fact, you usually also hear the sound effect even when one is hit with the correct projectile, namely, a mouthful of well-chewed tobacco. For that indeed is the kind of spit they were designed for. In "Beauty and the Beast" the grandfather clock hits one with its pendulum.

Another common spittoon gag involves a BONG! sound from under a bed, and the cause turns out to be a spittoon rather than the expected, but too-uncouth-for-the-screen bedpan.