Summary

MUSICAL SHORTS AND ANIMATED SHORTS

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Title: MUSICAL SHORTS AND ANIMATED SHORTS
File Number: SWF-14 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Music
Year: 1930s - 1940s
Description: B W 1930s - 1940s PIE, PIE BLACKBIRD - 1932 - Music short Director: Roy Mack Cast: Nina Mae McKinney, Nicholas Brothers, Eubie Blake and his Band. A musical fantasy in which a pie cooling atop a shelf magically bursts open to reveal Eubie Blake and his band. Nina Mae McKinney and the Nicholas Brothers join in the fun in such numbers as "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You." B W 1930s - 1940s SCRUB ME, MOMMA, WITH A BOOGIE BEAT - 1941 - Animated Director: Walter Lantz The lethargic residents of Lazy Town are revived when a swinging coquette boogies through. Another example of stereotypical bad taste. B W 1930s - 1940s JUNGLE JITTERS - 1938 - Animated - Color Director: Friz Freleng A door-to-door traveling salesman ventures to an African village where he is captured by his customers and put in a pot for their dinner. Racist image, Africans as cannibals. B W 1930s - 1940s ALL THIS AND RABBIT STEW - 1941 - Animated - Color Director: Tex Avery In this cartoon, Bugs Bunny outwits a Stepin' Fetchit-like character. Exemplifies the stereotypical attitudes of Hollywood in the early 1940s.
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