Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Walter Lantz Cartoon 1940s

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Cartoon version by Walter Lantz done in 1940s. Lantz is best known for Woody Woodpecker

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Music

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• buglers
• Reveille
• Taps
• World
• War
• WW
• II
• Two
• Big
• Band
• Boogie
• Woogie
• Army
• Marines
• Navy
• Air
• Corps

[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.

[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 -_-

[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 -

[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.

[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 :)

[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.

[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)

[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.