Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Walter Lantz Cartoon 1940s

[alicechi1]

SPILL!!! 

[kandikid2308]

wow its a sad day when there is not a single video that doesnt have an argument in the comments, not even classic cartoons are safe. oy people. get over yourselves -_-

[fehrarce]

hahahah this is genius, what a sonderful times, no doubt this is so classic, so good, so pure and so funny. god bless this great men, also people like walter lantz and dysney.

[cpm6miller]

1:41 "Who Dat?!" Geaux Saints!

[Phantanos]

I saw a techna color version of this in the 70's on PBS. It was beautiful to look at. It's a pity that it has not been released.

[88Rocker]

I have not seen this since I was 13 in 1975!! I loved this and I remembered it all..the part hitting the bullets then exploding and playing a harp on a cloud.not to mention it was kick as boogie woogie jump music! Thanks for posting this, Danny O'Donnell

[canonet17]

I'm Black and see this in two ways. The animation part of me sees this as superb considering the soundtrack and great animation. The other side of me sees the negative caricatures and makes me wonder what black people of the time thought of this and Bob Clampett's Coal black and the Seven dwarfs. I watch and keep it in context of the times but love the sound track.

[thrummer1953]

canonet,that's idiotic.Cartoons exaggerate EVERYBODY & EVERYTHING! I'm so sick of seeing examples of P.C. brainwashing.

[excidedous]

Well sir I am not black but I do despise one group of people - bigots. I see the cartoon as a masterpiece in music and that is music that came from the black influenced swing era. Not sure why it would be offensive considering there is very little music that has been equaled in quality. In contrast - Elmer Fudd was the biggest retard in cartoons there ever was. It's supposed to be funny & just because there are bigots doesn't make it less so. It's not funny because they're black.

[excidedous]

The time was disruptive to every American and all walks of life. Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys went to war as well. No one liked it and this was another attempt to make light of a situation no one could avoid. Wouldn't it be offensive to take this tune and stick Bing Crosby in it instead because the guy is white? The Delta Rhythm Boys and the Mills Brothers were the most fantastic singers the 30s & 40s ever saw and the Mills Bros did a lot of cartoon backgrounds. They were awesome.

[excidedous]

The fact is - Walter Lantz was a huge fan of this sort of music and produced it in the medium he did best and that was satire animation. It lampooned everyone but it was the best way to get the music to the forefront in the day and helped achieve National popularity. And yes I agree there was plenty going on that was demeaning to various races and honestly there is a long way to go in places.

[excidedous]

This Cartoon was up for an Academy Award in 1941. The Andrews Sisters did it in January the same year and this came out later on. Fats Waller was depicted playing piano in a few animated cartoons early on and I guess I always felt it was flattering as he is by far the best pianist/composer of the time. Even Bob Wills was influenced by the early swing days as he and his family grew and picked cotton in Turkey Texas and were very poor growing up.

[canonet17]

excidedous, with your not being black, you do not know how it would be offenseive I said the cartune ( Lantz's term) has great music but folks have a problem with the depictions of the Black characters. That's why you do not see it on TV anymore. I remember it being on TV in the early 70s.

As for Fudd, he was supposed to be the fall guy in WB cartoons.

[excidedous]

Yes I understand however, name a cartoon caricature that was favorable in appearance white or black. I am just saying the intent of this particular cartoon was not racist but more admonishing to the music. No one was flattered in cartoons. I will grant you there are some blatant racist examples.

[daisybtoes]

@canonet17

You don't have to black to recognize offensive stereotypes, but sometimes you have to put that aside in context of the times such films were made. I love this cartoon and I love the song. I think it is great to have this classic boogie performed by a young black musician in an all-black regiment, and not three Jewish girls on a stage. This "realism" at its most clever. (But yes, it is true that comical characters of this era were always silly-looking people, black or white)

[skrattkantarellen]

@canonet17

the target audience for Coal Black was blacks. the idea was suggested to Bob clampett by Duke Ellington who said he should make an all black musical cartoon. I see Clampett's jazz cartoons as being more based on caricature than stereotype because there's a lot of funny observation. He makes fun of the jazz subculture but not in a way that says blacks are inferior or anything. Cartoons are supposed to make fun of things :)

[canonet17]

@skrattkantarellen I have heard something similar sometime ago about the idea for Coal Black. The animation, love or hate the story, still matches what many can do today with the aid of a computer.

I'm guess what many of the older WB directors used in their works were from observation to get ideas. Evenryone was made fun of on theirs, and other, cartoons.

[excidedous]

@canonet17

And what white cartoon character do you think is done in a positive way? Elmer Fudd? It's a damn cartoon, NO ONE is flattered in case you haven't noticed. Is it fine if you want to draw a character to look funny as long as he's not black? That's pretty damn biased. What about the entire theme that the guy plays a great horn & everyone loves it? Can't see positive in that? Walter Lantz loved this music. The Mills Brothers also loved doing cartoon sound tracks & no one made them -

[izcookie]

Great cartoon.  Sarge sounds a little like Popeye.

[CodenameSailorEarth]

Amazing!

[FilmTraum2]

Wow!Fantastic!

[arushdavid]

great!!!!!!!! i love this song!!!!!!! i play it in my jazz band at palm springs middle school. mr.magersuppe is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jimmy37404]

Get over it! It is what it is. A view of another time and place. Nothing more...

[Tony280Zq]

I would guess that this cartoon, which was produced by Universal, would have been featured in theaters along with the Abbott and Costello comedy, "Buck Privates" in which the Andrews Sisters sing the song. The vocal version -- to me -- is superior, which makes the stereotypes all the more regrettable.

[Tony280Zq]

Lantz' music director, Darrell Calker, knew a lot of jazz musicians in the Los Angeles area and would recommend that Lantz build a cartoon around them when the musicians needed extra cash. I would be curious to know the name of the vocalists who sing the title song on the soundtrack.

[woodears]

This just came out on the new Woody Woodpecker DVD...I'm a little surprised that they included this one but not some of the other excellent 'Swing Symphonies" that include politically incorrect caricatures...

[Rlotpir1972]

Universal made TWO volumes.