Jungle Jitters Banned Cartoon

Jungle Jitters is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on February 19, 1938 by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Friz Freleng, with musical supervision by Carl W. Stalling and voices by Mel Blanc

Jungle Jitters opens to a scene of an African jungle showing the natives going about their day, with the jungle elements being intertwined with modern-day elements, IE: the people dancing around a tent when it turns into a makeshift merry-go-round, to the tune of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down."

A traveling salesman comes by to offer them the latest in "assorted useful, useless, utensils." The natives capture him, throw him into a pot of boiling water, and ransack his goods. They proceed to familiarize themselves with vacuum cleaners, batteries, light bulbs, etc.

When the salesman is introduced to the village queen (depicted as a white woman, possibly to avoid any problems with the Hays code over the issue of miscegenation), she takes a liking to him, imagining the cartoon dog as none other than Clark Gable. The salesman finds himself with the choice between a forced marriage with the homely queen, or the boiling pot of water. He chooses the pot.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• banned
• cartoon
• warner
• brothers
• wb
• animated
• animation
• jungle
• jitters
• censored
• stereotypes
• africa
• african
• natives
• chinese
• waiter
• cannibals
• comedy
• technicolor
• mel
• blanc

[Zombiedude101z]

6:40 That isn't realistic most black people don't ask for money they just pull a gun and mug them.

[Zombiedude101z]

5:42 MY VIRGIN EYES HOW THEY BLEED

[Zombiedude101z]

They just couldn't resist the taste of Southern Fried Meat.

[smimot]

That'll be two dolla's please!

[se95128]

This is no longer banned apparently because it comes free when you buy the roku box for Netflix on a channel called Pub d Hub.

[pokedogman14]

brilliant



[juslitor]

Lol, awesome

[Dboy316]

this is sad!

[lindsey2021]

These cartoons carry alot of history. I bought one of the Looney Tunes DVDs and in it was some cartoons with undertoned racism. This was the norm back then. We have all become so familiar with Friz Freling, Mel Blanc, Merrie Melodies etc that it comes as a shock that these same people/studios would produce such cartoons. I wonder if Tex Avery was the same way.

[cuervodka]

That thing's raspy voice at 2:22 freaked me out! In fact, I found that character's voice more offensive than the stereotypes themselves XD