Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

Part of the collection at the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia They also have a RealPlayer video of the cartoon, since Michael Moore is more likely to go anorexic before you'll be seeing this on on Cartoon Network.

Comments

[joe heumann]

Coal Black is brilliant, but so was Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. So let's just call it that: The Triumph of the Will of Warner's cartoons. It's tough to have to watch something so well done, that is so vile at the same time. It promoted everything the good ole USA supposedly was fighting against and any African American who had just been inducted into the military and saw Coal Black must have had a hard time figuring who the hell was covering his back.

[J. Alec West]

This cartoon not only uses just about every black stereotype in the book, not only uses the 'D' word considered a politically incorrect reference to short people, but it also leaves me with a big question mark irrespective of it's sensitivity flaws.

Clampett drew the cartoon's heroine to be an incredibly well-built young woman. And, he drew her wearing a micro-mini-skirt that would have raised eyebrows even in the 1960s (in a 1940s cartoon). I'm curious if Clampett got any flak from parents or censorship groups over his choice of attire for the cartoon heroine.

[Steve Bailey]

I do not consider myself a racist in the least, but I think this is one of the funniest Warner Bros. cartoons ever made. Director Bob Clampett and his crew intended this as a tribute to jazz music that he loved, and he and his crew went to black L.A. nightclubs to get the right feel. Not to say there aren't stereotypes in the cartoon. (Most of them have been duly pointed out here, but the most shocking is the ad on the side of Murder Inc.'s car: "We Rub Out Anybody - Midgets Half-Price - Japs Free." [Remember, this was wartime.]) But in an era where Keenan Ivory Wayans can make the most financially successful black movie ("Scary Movie") and base his humor on sexual humor and mental retardation, surely there's a place in pop culture for a far less offensive, and way funnier, six-minute cartoon.

Visit my tribute to "Coal Black" at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoalBlackandeSebbenDwarfs

[Kevin Kunreuther]

Free the art and let commerce be the judge.

[Dave M]

> It promoted everything > the good ole USA
> supposedly was
> fighting against

EVERYTHING? It advocated killing ALL Jews? Supposedly fighting against? Maybe I shouldn't be on the internet today, I keep being all incredulous.