Walt Disney - Social Lion - 1954

[NinjaPWNED]

They only notice he's a lion when he's in a blue suit?!

[ryno123321]

This is where Madagascar got their idea.

[ChelsT14]

"This is Africa.. where all of the animals romp and play."

More like "This is Africa, where the lions eat all of the other animals."

[duringtherapy]

dd

[azn88hunni]

This is actually really depressing. Seems like it's saying no one cares about you until you try to succeed; then you get shown your place. That's my take on it.

[yellowraven8]

LAMBERT MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO N.Y.C :)

[ChloChlo193]

Ohh the racism O_o

[Bigsnake210]

@ChloChlo193 racism? you mean the way they portrayed blacks in Africa? lol i bet you never met a black straight out of Africa, that was a gentle way of depicting them lmao what propaganda can do to people, i'm amazed, i bet you think that they are like hollywood show us, cool etc. right? hilarious

[JesusIsTheSavior7777]

@Bigsnake210 I bet he/she was talking about the way the Africans were drawn,,

[ChloChlo193]

@Bigsnake210 I was talking about the way they were drawn, douche bag. Didn't seem very P.C.

[OperatorKium]

I thought the lion would end up back in Africa as a lesson that they should be kept where they belong. Guess not :/ apparently locking him in a cage is better

[SylvieNe]

My wife! Lmao.

[ConanCimmerio]

16 people were called by their wives

[icedragon23472]

That's not Lambert, It's Mufasa!!!

[metaldesire4]

@icedragon23472 nope, it's chuck testa!

[kirmylover2]

About the depiction of race, yes, it would not be to our standards today. But as it has been mentioned in beginning of another collection that had a similar cartoon. These are still shown because of the value of the story, but also note how far we have come. From these cruel "race" depictions to now having a African American princess, Tiana.

[slimechurch]

am i the only one who thinks this cartoon's mad racist?



[panty3pirate]

@slimechurch You're not the only one, you're just the only one who cares.

[Alecalisk]

@slimechurch Why do you think that?

[seljean1]

Why did they that him in the city in the first place?

[LindsCole240]

How did the Lion pay for the pretty blue suit?

[wraigosa]

With the Goofy music

[Mishieftress]

Lol, its Lambert

[Velazquez283]

Lambert?

[MeowMyan]

@Velazquez283 search lambert the sheepish lion :P... or you'll find it once this vid finishes...

[angelrosas999]

Jesus Christ, man!

You're a lion!

Eat somebody! =)

[sonicawesomeness]

MY WIFE!

[esmeraldaxxxx]

he's a lion he can do whatever he whats as long as he doesn't get killed.

[captainsealed]

Jesus Christ, man!

You're a lion!

Eat somebody!

[ellechick13]

I think I would notice if I got on the subway with a lion :P

[Joakim1400]

That Africa looks more like Australia if you look at it in a other way

[astridkitty1212]

This lion looks like Simba on Pride Rock in the opening scene ;)

[Unlimited517]

@astridkitty1212 That's Mufusa at the beginning, and he doesn't even roar

[mylovesofmylife]

My Mans Sunsign is Leo-Lion, and my 2nd Daughters Sunsign is Leo-Lion also. LOL we named our pet orange cat Leo.

[mylovesofmylife]

My Lion Man has two sides to him a Social Lion Side & a Daddy Lion Side.

[SpockLover27]

How did Lambert get to the city??? :P

[DramaKaw]

Love this cartoon a lot, but the audio is a little off by half a second.

[happyjme]

excuse me, I probably should have said immigrants as apposed to foreigners.

[happyjme]

doesnt anyone realize that the lion represents our societies treatment of foreigners? Yet it was made in the 50s, so the lion more then likely represents either an African American or a Communist. Its saying no one will notice a unliked person in society unless they are wealthey or try to be like everyone else. Then their ridiculed and called out for who they really are. By the end of the film he is locked up so everyone can stair but he gets his enjoyment by frightening them anyways.

[Aetheilas]

@happyjme

I thought it was more about people from rural areas adjusting to the city, and how everyone's too busy to care about the things that small-town people do. The culture shock that rural people face when moving to the city.

[CelesteStorywriter]

GOD DAMN IT SIMBA

GET BACK TO PRIDEROCK.

[musikeranglola]

My favorite!! <3

[Bobcatgirl03]

Funny how nobody notices a freakin' LION until after they put him in a suit! XD

[Bastiest]

Poor lion. No one will hear his fearful roar.

[radith]

i love lambert

[sexykatie911]

lpmangas my msn in profile! Walt Disney - Social Lion - 1954

[SuperDesi123456]

i feel same in London...even the ppl r acting same as in London:)

[blacknicktoonanime]

@MrBoo88 whats a furrie?

[sergeimontoya]

LOLLOLLOLL 1:10 - 1:14

[misukiyuki]

he looks like Simba and look it's Pride Rock at 42 seconds LOL XD

[blacknicktoonanime]

dose aferca seem a bit fat to you guys ?

[savannahadi]

Come baby Asian ladies  #lushfmlk.info#

[popsoccer09]

It's Lambert!!!

[MrBoo88]

And people wonder where furries came from...

[000elflame]

spanish 

[PoisonAppleProd]

wow. racist

[LouDeppDepp]

Reminds me a hell of a lot of Madagascar.

[crewwolf]

The people seemed to be more disturbed by the thought of a lion trying to fit into society than the fact that there's a freaking wild lion rampaging the New York streets. Moral of the story: Just be yourself, because a lion in a suit is just freaky.

[merrymonday]

Maybe this is where the movie "Madagascar" got its inspiration from. 

[bulletsyo]

why didnt they notice it in the first place that he is a lion.......duh!

[x0xJinx0x]

I love how they notice he's a loose lion after he's in a suit.

[Digitalfairy]

Funny how that if a lion were actually to get loose in real life there'd be a public panic, but in a cartoon people can be as thick as bricks.

[wolfshifter13]

yep thats lambert



[emeraldthechao174]

It's easy to see recycled footage but it's still well executed.

[filmfreak222]

Those were the days when cartoons weren't just easy entertainment for the kids, but also had a lot of irony, satire and hidden messages that adults as well as children enjoyed watching ;)

[Tareltonlives]

I still think it's better than Kimba.

[makenna88]

Lambert!

[kylemyster100]

that lion looks like the adult version of lambert

[GhostRider659]

@MovieRatlan You're right, this makes it even worse. I guess this stuff was made before Martin Luther King took care of that stuff.

[GhostRider659]

Black carriers, huh? You RACIST!!!

[MovieRatIan]

@GhostRider659 The racism is more about how they decided to draw the black carriers, all looking alike and having giant light lips....they're not even in the same drawing style as the rest of the characters, which makes it even weirder.

[vawlkee51]

Great social parable!

[Animeforever61]

I wouldn't mind giving the lion a big hug.

[fofarabs]

loooooooooooooooooool its really funny;:)

[vilma8989]

this is fun:D

[ThreeTillOurWedding]

rediculous racism as usual :(. oh well, its still a funny one, besides that.

[irvin564]

now THAT'S stereotipical 1:07

[FireCheepCheep]

Okay, how come he wasn't noticed until they fit him in clothes?

HA!! They use the "Mama " thing again. 6:09

[bursegsardaukar]

decades later, disney would show lions in a whole new perspective in Lion King.

[vawlkee51]

Perhaps so, but at least "Social Lion" isn't a blatant rip off of someone else's works as was "Lion King".

By that I mean Osamu Tezuka's "Jungle Emperor" that started as a comic in 1955 and wound up as a TV series in 1965.

[NightmareOzLuffy]

Why was Goofy`s theme used ??? Too Lazy to compose a new one I bet

[byw613]

@NightmareOzLuffy Nah, by the 50's Disney was getting ready to shut down their short's department and didn't have the money to make a new theme.

[TheBoochan82]

Its nothing about ' racism' for those who say the African scene is bad.

Its about The way the world is, thank you.

Shit, in NYC you wouldnt even notice a lion walking the streets till He was eating someone!

[goodstuffbunny]

hey I know that lion! that's Lambert from the the sheepish lion cartoon! God I didn't know he had another show of himself!

[cloudy7]

Lol @ the tribal sounds 1:03. I've heard them use this sound in so many other shows like rugrats etc. So this is where it originated from?

[meangrenie2010]

i liked it for the most part, except for the way the Africans were drawn. That was racist.

[7bigmike7]

Saw this on DisKids in th 90's. They edited out the Africans in the safari & the bar scene. Thanks for broadcasting the entire cartoon.

[daughterofthestars08]

I noticed what beeches noticed, too. If that was animated and released nowadays, the producer would immediately be disowned by society.

He was simply making an observation on the differences in society then.

[Lordodragonss]

Poor lion...

[iutuber1]

I like the sarcasm at the end.

[xnotseenx]

The lion ROARS.....the city roars back

[KuteFairytale]

x0x0beeches

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OMG why cant people just enjoy the film? why does EVERYONE have to bring racism into EVERYTHING!!! just shut up and watch the entertaining film and quit looking for things to complain about.

[dexterWES]

many of these animations are reuses from lambert

[PossumFang]

@dexterWES Yeah, I was going to say... most of them look just like Lambert. And he also said, "Mamma!" just like Lambert did in Lamber the Sheepish Lion.

[GoeLiezzz]

thank you for uploading, I remember this cartoon when I was a kid, and I loved the part from 03:56 :D "booeehww, those darn kids!!"

[kampffussel578]

4:17 find ich auch geil xD

[wolfi3000000]

4 :17 was macht der da mit seinem arsch

[x0x0beeches]

i don't like how they mad those africans l0k like monkeys racism back then was horrible

[Jophie12]

@x0x0beeches Get over it, black people are more racist to White people.

[yaann]

I disagree with the "they're more racist than us" argument because:

1/ Two wrongs don't make a right

2/ Ironically, to portray a whole race as racist is, well, a race-based generalization and, therefore, is racist.

[beasst94]

@x0x0beeches shut up and enjoy the video

otherwise dont watch it

[pikachuluver01]

he looks and sounds like lambert

[royalfuzziness]

The model for Scar from The Lion King

[Valis77]

true!

[amethystducky]

1.08 lol nigs

[ChrisRJ]

0:42 - is that the 50s version of Pride Rock?  heheh

[sonic423]

people are so dumb when they didn't see a lion in the street. lol

[kaesardb]

this is disneys social critic, lion is a metaphor of how men are loosing there capacity of "admire" (LOL) beauty of nature. that why city is so crowd and messy

[gib1jack]

lol i think it's funny... wouldnt the people in the city actually be terrified if they found a ferocious lion roaming about??

[phoenixflameangel13]

hahahahaha he roars in the bar and the guys are all like *gasp* my wife!!

[charlemagne83]

HAHAHAHA!! I also laughed my ass off on that part! Hahaha!

[Queensophiane]

i wish they would still show these things on tv

[kidatheartxo16]

6:12-6:17 is from Lambert The Sheepish Lion lol

[thai2ty]

i am lion, hear me roar!!!:)

[Abracamoron]

Hahaha, I laugh so hard at what goes on in this

makes me think of Madagascar a little

[allismann]

what wonderful content for small children...and yet tv and movies have not improved with time.

[battar]

You're right: Wonderful content for children. My daughter loves Lambert and the lions

[MDthornton83]

"The Lion needs a friend" says the narrator. True. Of course he can't make friends with a stone statue. Silly lion!

[MDthornton83]

Whoo! Punching a lion! Now that's asking for it big time! That guy's lucky the lion didn't become agressive or else he'd end up with his fist bitten off!

[catowner153]

i like theese old cartoons better

[ZNKChannel]

Isn't that Lambert?

[ArktosDelphi]

I think it is. Near the end of the cartoon it says 'mama' just like in Lambert.

Maybe he went back to Africa? :)

[tomeofenigmas]

No one can say that this cartoon was meant to be a light tap on the chin or a shared joke with blacks because back when it was made there were no Civil Rights for African-Americans and people looked down on Blacks. It's okay to laugh at it now because now slavery, discrimination and all that other bull is done and gone with. Just please don't try to sit there and reason this away as 'just a reasonable joke'.

[robloxman98]

LOL

[Keitafox]

You can really tell the recycled the design of the lion from another Disney cartoon Lambert the Sheepish Lion. Especially in 6:12-6:17

[DisneyGirl55555]

Poor lion...

[origamipein18]

Yeah, people can be so touchy!

[robloxman98]

HAHA =)

[gnumusic]

humor has changed. in some ways i'm glad...

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[TempestSiren]

They were different times and people werent as racially touchy back then. it was just made to be funny

[paperaducati]

1,14 lol

[BluTaiger]

Ha! Nobody notices there's a lion in the city until he tries blending in - then EVERYBODY notices!

[am9224]

DTV Disney

Cadets - Stranded In The Jungle

[hersheyandshadow]

Also, Bee Gees-Staying Alive!

[SEF6519]

hehehe, the lion is expriencing culture shock =3

[lekari005]

thats offensive how they have the africans look and sound

[SEF6519]

yeah well, thats history for ya (lulz)

catoons may show how kids were taught about stereotypes and racism back in the day =/

[weylin6]

how is that single part racist or stereotyped... wasn't there quite a few stereotypes throughout that whole episode? The different characters in the city and all.

I didn't find anything offensive about it...

It's like, if animators are going to include someone who isn't white, they have to make there animation "plain" or else its called a stereotype -_-

[SEF6519]

u know, the cartoon indian, the tiny eyed chinese, and so on. that kind of stereotypes =/ i wasn't just talking about this old cartoon

and fuck that last bit! sometimes, cartoons NEED stereotupes for it to be entertaining =)

who cares if someone finds it offensive because its "racist". as a matter of fact, all races makes fun of other races xD. everyone makes fun of everybody else, big deal xD

[weylin6]

exactly :P

[RiveLee]

i quite agree with you.

[USFella]

You don't need stereotypes for a cartoon to be entertaining, so your argument is false. When this cartoon was made, blacks were segregated and fighting for their rights. The way media represent people makes a difference, especially when they aren't in the dominant power group and are the butt of specific jokes (that they are primitive and marginal) that demean them and their value as human beings. If you aren't a member of the oppressed group, you don't get to decide what should offend them.

[remdog1138]

I think you do need stereotype, to a certain extent, for humor to be funny. Most humor is funny because either it's true, or is a caricature, or plays against type. Now, I'm not saying that stereotype cannot be offensive, like many of the depictions of minorities in the past, the caricatures of blacks at this time would not be acceptable by today's standards. I just take it as a sign of the times, to look back and see how far we've progressed as a society.

[cwrinn]

You take offense to their making fun of blacks, but I bet you laughed at the fun they made of whites. And the latter had quite a bit more air time. Does that make you better than them?

[vantarinitel]

Howabout this: I'M offended that the stereotypical WHITE GUY was on here. Drunken, blind busy bums who don't even notice a lion in NYC until he's dressed indeed. At least the black guys were smart enough to know a lion when they saw one!

[iluvkeroppi79]

I think that lekari005 meant that the cartoon was offensive because the Africans were depicted in black face, dark face and white around the mouth. This cartoon is comical because of the personality stereotypes of people in general though. :-)

[maxleo34]

ROAR

"my wife!" (whizzes away)

lol :D

[SugaHoney212]

Thxs for posting!!!

[mcman7890]

you can tell that this is before political correctness. look at the natives lol

[animagusurreal]

The line "Mama" sounds like it came from Lambert the Sheepish Lion.

[LittleNekoAngel]

He moves the exact same way too. I think they just cut it out and put it in this show as well XP

[KeybladeKH]

That city's definately New York.

[FilmTraum]

Poor boy...!

[togio100]

wow. no wonder Disney doesn't want this shown.

It's hilarious that there's an early version of PETA protesting the lion's shipping.

[b3d]

I wonder why Goofy's theme was used in the opeining cerdits? Maybe he was in the cartoon, but obviously not seen!

[rolfcopter1588]

Some of Goofy's episodes had this intro.