M-G-MRaretoon

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[fromthesidelines]

Rare, indeed- this is one of Hanna-Barbera's 1941 "one-shot" cartoons {a la Tex Avery at Schlesinger/Warner Bros.}, before they concentrated on "Tom & Jerry" full-time. The voice of the "passing motorist" is double-talk expert Cliff Nazzaro. "Why, Daddy?" was Fanny Brice's catchphrase as radio's "Baby Snooks"..."The Songbird Of the South" is a caricature of Kate Smith...Mel Blanc and Sara Berner are the "cotton pickers"...Lucky Strike's "tobacco auctioneers" on radio is satirized, also...

[Stephen10528]

Please upload Officer Pooch.

[MetalurgiaGrea]

what a prolific imagination have had those two amaizing hanna & barbera! awsome!

[quantafunk]

The racism in this video makes me want to vomit. They were all in on it too even the military. This hate and intollerance came rite from the top.

[ksharmaine]

@maxeythecat

I agree.

[ksharmaine]

I'm glad they cut those racist parts for tv.

[cardhang]

I hear bugs' " voice " in the first cotton picker,too.

[flimflam742]

I think that's Mel Blanc doing the voices of the "cotton pickers" It definitely sounds like his "Rochester" imitation. If it is Blanc, then this would have been the first time he ever worked with Hanna-Barbera... He wouldn't work with them again until the 1960's, when they had their own production company.

Other than this cartoon, "Officer Pooch", and "Good Will Toward Men" their entire output at MGM consisted of Tom & Jerry cartoons.

[itsniknak1]

I remember this one ...but when I saw it they edited it so I never knew it had thoese parts in it .....Your so right it is sad .

[royalfuzziness]

My thoughts exactly mr goose, when i ask someone for simple favor and all i get is a bunch of BS.

[maxeythecat]

I know that cartoons such as this were a product of their time, but it still sorta creeps me out at just how blatant the racism was and how easily they got away with it. Some of the MGM ones aren't too bad..in fact Fats Waller and some of the other jazz greats went so far as to lend their voices and thought some of these quite funny...sad to say this ain't one of 'em.