JOSE JIMINEZ CARTOON

[yr2square]

This stinks. Watch clips of Bill Dana on Steve Allen.

[ofeliazick]

i love that show

[JJJimenez160]

Jajajajajjajajajajaja thats my freaking name Jose Jimenez

[Actionguy1]

Wow! As long as I've known of Bill Dana's Jose Jimenez (Which has been a LONG time!) I never knew these existed.

These cartoons never captured Jose the way he was on TV. They really weren't funny.

They needed Jonathan Harris as the foil!

[katinaanimator]

Bill Dana created the Jose Jiminez character as a popular radio skit, but even Shamus Culhane admitted that whatever humor the skits had were lost once they were made into cartoons. They just weren't funny. Jose IS kind of a bad stereotype.

[RonaldS10]

why you following me on twitter?fuck your cartoon try this

[SteveCarras]

Guy Lombardo and hsi brothers fouyght to keep louis Armstrong ina resturant in the pre-integration thirties, even Louis prima [Italian, easily mistakble for black [and was popular with BLACKS

So it shows some of the most "white-bread", performers were just as sensitive to civil rights as anyone and this short actually was one (as I said) as a '66 one, one of the last "racist" ones [the illfated Speedy Gonzales, as if the Daffy teaming was not back enough, came at a late time]

[shadejford]

Another thing--the white colonialist character got what he deserved at the end for not respecting native traditions. And the native chief speaking a British accent is a sharp jab at racist preconceptions of brown-skinned races. A sign of the times during which this cartoon was released.

[2005dave]

@SteveCarras - for whatever it's worth, I thought Louis Prima was black for almost 30 years.

[SteveCarras]

Well, an tiblakc I don't know but Jose Jiminez, Senior...it's form 1960s but that was pretty late in the era of "{racism" ["Hairspray" set in 1962 dealt with anti-racism in favor of pro-blakc civil rights..]

Hey, do you know some of the mos tunliekly supporters of rights for minorites, and true stories,

Bing Crosby [had every Black performer popular in the 30s and 40s]

Lawrence Welk [Art Duncan]

Mitch Miller [Leslie Uggams, younger and female too]

Guy Lombardo and his brothers [more]

[shadejford]

Change is even more prominent after Ralph Bakshi took over the studio. Just check out the youtube entry on Bakshi's "Marvin Digs." It's like Bakshi brought over his Terrytoons staff and pushed aside the staffs of all the former Paramount/Famous cartoon directors.

[knockout13]

This cartoon is racist! It presents a stereotypical depiction of cannibals!

[slowdive922]

maybe you didn't notice that this might be old, it's from 1966

[1aundulxaldin]

@knockout13

Look, these are old cartoons.

[shadejford]

I've seen the cartoons you mention. Kneitel died in l964 and it's interesting how his films during that year showed some innovation. Changes in the background music were already being made. For example. note the post-bebop jazzy soundtrack of the Swifty & Shorty cartoon.

[agcruz]

Racist bullshit from the 1960s. Even the accent is terrible, he sounds indian with a twist of a brooklyn accent.

[musicom67]

I noticed that also instantly... very Bill Lava like...and lightly orchestrated..

[shadejford]

This is certainly more imaginative and clever than what Paramount was producing six years before this cartoon was released. Both Howard Post and Shamus Culhane got Winston Sharples to move away from the repetitive, overly serious musical scores which had permeated Famous Studio cartoons since the early '50s.'Just compare this Modern Madcap's score to the scores of Modern Madcaps released six years earlier.

[musicom67]

Begley P. Bogus is designed with obvious Jay Ward influence...

[Lectronimo]

God bless Winston Sharples.

[fromthesidelines]

Very rare, indeed! This was from the twilight of the Paramount {formerly Famous} Cartoon Studios unit in New York, when Shamus tried to create more imaginative cartoons than Seymour Kneitel ever did. Bob McFadden provided all the other voices. Not many people know that "Jose Jiminez" aspired to become a cartoon star!

[powergirl901]

This material slipped in between the old studio guard, as they were mostly all gone by then. Nobody at the gate, figuratively.

[dadogster]

Very Rare and funny.