Betty Boop - Out of the Ink Well - 1938
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this, in fact, is highly anti-racist with Fleischer occupying a black actor in one of his movies in 1938
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@BrendanVox Whatever. Shutup.
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That's some baaad bassoon playing in that cartoon!
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i hav met black people from arkansas that hav that accent. i think that the being portrayed as lazy was the rascist part of this cartoon. it was still amusing though.
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Is it? There are still plenty of black people who talk like that today. Watch Jerry Springer for examples.
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Originally released by Paramount in April 1938, and Max Fleischer's last attempt at mixing live action and animation, before moving his studio to Miami, Florida. Mae Questel is "Betty" (one of her final appearances before Margie Hines succeeded her in Florida). Sammy Timberg wrote and conducted the score. The janitor was actually portrayed by Oscar Polk [his voice was dubbed, as his footage was filmed without sound].
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well you have to remember that most Betty Boop shows were created around the time blacks and colored people were discriminated against so we can't just sit here and forever damn these cartoons, we can't turn back time and change anything so, our best bet is just to live with it. Besides looking at the offensive things about it, just enjoy what's beside it.
2 years ago 5
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I think the janitor might be Willie Best, uncredited. Even IMdB doesn't track who the actor is, but that is my strong theory.
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Dajuro 4 years ago 13
as an isolated piece of art this isn't so problematic, but the fact that black people were almost exclusively portrayed as lazy and ignorant is pretty offensive. and they clearly overdubbed his voice to make him sound more stereotypical.
you don't have to pretend it isn't racist to say you enjoyed it.
BrendanVox 4 years ago 11