BETTY BOOP-Minnie the Moocher -(With Cab Calloway orquestra)

wolpintv - thx for the heads up. That was creator Max Fleischer @ 3:10, right? Totally got by me the first time.

This is fuckin' morbid....

wow....the 1920's.....they would.

My .02 ... to me this work of art was about using some new processes. I think the whole song would have been filmed start to finish, with the sound recorded live. Then after processing the film, parts picked out of Cab Colloway dancing, traced onto film frame by frame as a basis for main dancing figure. Then the film needed a theme=heroin (& the cold turkey demons) what I guess the song is about and a binder story =Betty Boop. Immortal Cab you'll live forever!

"I'll eat some worms and then I'll die". That's what I'm gonna do!

Like it or not, CAB CALLOWAY was an important part of Black MUSICAL HISTORY! He was a LOT BETTER than Michael Jackson and until Hurricane Katrina, you could still hear that kind of jazz in certain parts of my hometown --NEW ORLEANS,LA! This cartoon was made when this country was Rabidly racist!It was rare that ANYTHING AFRICAN AMERICAN was portrayed at all...

you shitting me? the us is still as racist as ever. take a look around yourself, assuming your black (by the point you were trying to make) it wasnt that it WAS rabidly racist, it's that it's more hidden now, because no one wants to have to deal with it.

Hey brother, fake it 'till you make it. We can't eliminate hatred all at once. It takes time to heal. I don't think racism is as prevalent as it was in the 20's. Minorities are an intricate part of the American family, and there's much more love going around than hate these days.

In the same vein though, doesn't racism generally imply at least some amount of malice? If the people who created this cartoon were truly "racist" why would have they featured so many amazing black performers?

I'd agree that at the time the culture and entertainment was perhaps not as racially sensitive as it now, but I think it's a bit unfair to vilify or look down on this piece and it's creators because of that alone.

Now this  cartoon
l can not believe what lam seeing
thank's for post ti

God, look at Cab's ass...*DROOLS*