It is the only one of the Censored Eleven to have been directed by notable Warner Bros animated filmmaker and cartoonist Chuck Jones.

'Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears' (1944) IMDbĪngel Puss also came out in 1944.

It features many characters in blackface. Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears, released in 1944, meanwhile, is a parody of the original tale referenced in the title, but is reimagined with an all-black cast, as the Three Bears are turned into jazz musicians. IMDb Why were they so offensive?Įach of these cartoons contained storylines or characters depicting racist stereotypes, particularly of African Americans.įor example, All This and Rabbit Stew from 1941 follows Bugs Bunny – the only one of the 11 episodes that includes such a big Looney Tunes 'star' – as he battles a black hunter that is supposed to be a caricature of the American comedian and actor Stepin Fetchit, who was of Jamaican and Bahamian descent. To this day, the short animations have remained off-air, resurfacing online and at a TCM Classic Film Festival in 2010, according to reports.Ī scene from 'All This and Rabbit Stew' (1941), one of the 'Censored Eleven' cartoons. The cartoons, which were produced and released by Warner Bros, were withheld from syndication in the US in 1968 by United Artists, a US digital production company founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D W Griffith as a way of allowing actors to control their own interests. Long before Pepe Le Pew's appearance in Space Jam: A New Legacy was scrapped because of a furore over the animated French skunk's alleged contribution to 'rape culture', 11 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were pulled for being too offensive.

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