Volume 1: LITTLE BLACK SAMBO

LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
This U.B. Iwerks classic tells the story of Little Black Sambo & the Tiger.

JASPER IN A JAM
This George Pal Puppetoon features a vocal by Peggy Lee. It takes place on a rainy night in Harlem.

SCRUB ME MAMA WITH A BOOGIE BEAT
Down upon the Suwanee River in Lazytown a Lena Horne/Ella Fitzgerald-type sophisticate gets off the riverboat and introduces the locals to Harlem-style Boogie Woogie. A toe-tapping treat.

 JUNGLE JITTERS
A Goofy traveling saleman ends up in the big pot of these cartoon cannibals.

 UNCLE TOM & LITTLE EVA
Retelling "Uncle Tom's Cabin", this black & white classic contains more racial stereotypes than you can count.

ANY BONDS TODAY?
Bugs Bunny dons black-face, ala Al Jolson, to encourage theater-goers to buy war bonds.

JASPER DERBY
Little Jasper spurs an old warhorse on to win the Kentucky Derby.

JASPER and THE HAUNTED HOUSE
Jasper prevents spooks from taking Mamma's pie.

ALL THIS & RABBIT STEW
 (AKA: "Elmer Fudd was a Black Man!")
In this original version of the Bugs Bunny classic where Bugs outwits the hunter, the hunter is a comical black man. This was later re-made with Elmer Fudd as the hunter. A rare historical find, demonstrating the shift in Hollywood attitudes?

SUDDENLY IT'S SPRING
Raggedy Ann asks the lazy Spring winds to make a change.

LITTLE OL' BOSKO IN BAGDAD
Imaginative magical imagery transports Bosko to Bagdad where the Frogs try to take his Grandma's cookies.

FRESH HARE
Bugs & Elmer Fudd join a minstrel chorus, blackface, for "Dixie".

Volume 2: REDSKIN BLUES

AMOS & ANDY IN "RASSLIN' MATCH"

This is the animated version of Amos & Andy that featured the voices of the original radio stars. In this one Andy challenges the Champion for the title.

INKI & THE MINAH BIRD

A Sambo-like character takes on a Lion with the help of a Minah Bird.

PLANE DUMB

Tom & Jerry (NOT the cat & mouse) land in Africa and try to pass for natives. They end up fleeing from savage "spear-chuckers".

ROBINSON CRUSOE, JR.

Porky Pig flees the Hottentots with his trusty sidekick, Friday.

AMOS & ANDY IN "THE LION TAMER"

Andy attempts to switch the real lion for his friends in a lion suit. But, of course, the real lion gets in the act.

HITTIN' THE TRAIL FOR HALLELUJAH LAND

Riverboat and Plantation images caricature the folks down upon the Suwannee River.

RHYTHM ON THE RESERVATION

Betty performs heap-big boop-oop-a-doop

MOLLY MOO-COW and ROBINSON CRUSOE

Molly dons blackface to save Robinson Crusoe from cannibalistic savages.

MOLLY MOO-COW and THE INDIANS

Molly saves a papoose from drowning in the river.

REDSKIN BLUES

Tom & Jerry (now known as Dick & Larry) encounter savages on the open plains.

THE EARLY WORM GETS THE BIRD

Mammy's little darlin' sneaks out of the nest early

BOSKO & HONEY

This classic pair from the 30s croon & swoon.

CONGO JAZZ

1930 Harman-Isling toon starring Bosko

OUT OF THE INKWELL

A ne'r-do-well Negro hypnotizes Betty Boop.

VOLUME 3: A CHINAMAN’S CHANCE

LAUNDRY BLUES

Early 1930 animation by Van Beuren Studio takes place in a Chinese laundry

CHINAMAN'S CHANCE

U.B. Iwerks Flip the Frog pursues this escaped Chinese criminal back to the laundry

     

MAKING STARS
Betty Boop stereotypes a variety of ethnicities in this baby talent contest

LEPRECHAUNS GOLD
The Leprechauns try to help a small girl outwit the evil Landlord

GAY GAUCHO
Van Beuren's Cubby Bear makes merry south of the border

A COY DECOY

 Porky & Daffy sing along with Mammy

BUTTERSCOTCH & SODA

 

Mammy teaches Little Audrey not to eat sweets with a dream trip to the chocolates in candyland.

 

CROON CRAZY

 Cubby Bear’s radio show traverses the globe to stereotype peoples and ethnicities everywhere.

 

SLICK SLEUTHS

 Mutt & Jeff pursue the Shadow

 

SONG OF THE BIRDS

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