SIVACRACY.NET: Remembering the Racist and Misogynist Not So Distant Past

Read Popular Culture, Then and Now and The Good Ole Days That Weren't by Y. Carrington at The Primary Contradiction. In these posts she offers an astute and eye-opening critique of the Merrie Melodies cartoon Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943), "a supposed hot jazz retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, animated and produced by Warner Brothers animator Robert Clampett." She notes that: "This short is one of the infamous “Censored Eleven,” eleven Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts that were yanked from rebroadcast syndication in 1968 to accommodate that era’s swiftly-changing racial climate."

Comments

Personally, I think Yolanda's WAY overanalyzing this cartoon. I quite enjoyed it the first time I saw it, but I was lucky enough to have total contextual introduction care of Leonard Maltin (one of the country's foremost cartoon history mavens).

Posted by: Elayne Riggs | November 5, 2006 09:21 AM

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