Less Enlightened Times
by peter1-8 | created - 10 May 2011 | updated - 30 Nov 2011 | PublicHollywood once took a REALLY dim view of blacks and Asians, to say the least.
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1. Al's Troubles (1926)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy
Al and his pal Jack lose all but their underwear in a poker game, and have to flee in their underwear when the cops raid the joint. The elude the police by joining a bunch of marathon ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Al Alt, Jack Singleton, George Barton
3. Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh (1938)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their recalcitrant mule and Olive accidentally lands in the Indian camp. Popeye catches up to ... See full summary »
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wicke
Votes: 214
4. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper
Votes: 26,336 | Gross: $10.00M
5. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 192,093
6. Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs fights stereotyped Japanese during World War II.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 588
7. Caveman Inki (1950)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Back in prehistoric times, a thundering earthquake splits a mountain wide open, and out hops the minah bird, to alternately bedevil, mystify and rescue Inki as he hunts dinosaurs. Meanwhile... See full summary »
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 154
8. Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934)
Approved | 62 min | Drama
A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisians swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Olive Borden, Reed Howes, Molly O'Day, Francis Joyner
Votes: 328
9. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
So White flees from the wicked Queenie, wins over the thugs from Murder Inc. and meets her overrated Prince Chawmin'.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Ivie Anderson, Mel Blanc, Ruby Dandridge, Vivian Dandridge
Votes: 1,561
10. The Covered Pushcart (1949)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short
A Native American carjacks a trailer and realizes that he loves modern technology.
Director: Mannie Davis | Star: Tom Morrison
Votes: 19
11. Eats Are West (1925)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Felix the Cat enters the Old West and battles cruel gunmen and savage Indians.
Director: Otto Messmer
Votes: 53
12. Der ewige Jude (1940)
62 min | Documentary, History
Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race", designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of western civilisation fall off.
Director: Fritz Hippler | Stars: Curt Bois, Charles Chaplin, Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 3,928
13. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 334,192 | Gross: $198.68M
14. Inki at the Circus (1947)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
At the circus, two dogs compete for the bone in Inki's topknot, as a disinterested myna bird causes trouble for everyone.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 135
15. Inki and the Lion (1941)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Preceded by thunderous crashing from the jungle, a little black bird with a syncopated hop emerges from the brush to mystify big-game hunter Inki as he attempts to track down his prey: a ferocious daddy lion.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 153
16. Inki and the Minah Bird (1943)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
In an African jungle strange enough to have a roaring butterfly, Inki the boy hunter, a lion with false teeth and a magical minah bird match wits.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 307
17. Jingle, Jangle, Jungle (1950)
7 min | Animation, Short, Music
"Jingle Jangle Jungle" is an animated short about life in Africa (non-PC.) Includes a sing-a-long of "Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo)."
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Myron Waldman | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer
Votes: 44
18. Kid 'in' Africa (1933)
10 min | Comedy, Short
Missionary Cradlebait goes to the jungle to "civilize" the cannibals, but ends up in a cooking pot.
Director: Jack Hays | Stars: Shirley Temple, Danny Boone Jr.
Votes: 235
19. King Klunk (1933)
9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Pooch the Pup, his camera, and his girlfriend go to Africa to make a movie of a giant gorilla. Things proceed roughly as in King Kong (1933), though with various comic twists.
Director: Walter Lantz | Stars: Tex Avery, Walter Lantz
Votes: 128
20. Little Black Sambo (1935)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mammy gives Little Black Sambo a quick scrub on the washboard, then pats him down with baby powder, black baby powder, before sending him off to play. She warns him about the tiger. "That ... See full summary »
Directors: Ub Iwerks, Shamus Culhane, Al Eugster
Votes: 338
21. The Little Lion Hunter (1939)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Out hunting in the jungle with his spear, African native boy Inki keeps narrowly missing his prey: a parrot, a giraffe, even a butterfly. Then there's that weird black bird with the ... See full summary »
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 191
22. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
G | 68 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.
Directors: Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett
Votes: 3,712 | Gross: $0.82M
23. The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)
Approved | 63 min | Mystery
Mr. Wong stops at nothing to gain the possession of 12 coins of Confucius, which will bring him great power.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge, E. Alyn Warren
Votes: 875
24. A Nigger in the Woodpile (1904)
4 min | Comedy, Short
This is a clever comedy production in several scenes. In the opening scene the hired man is complaining to Farmer Jones that the woodpile is being depleted by thieves. Farmer Jones decides ... See full summary »
Votes: 244
25. A Plantation Act (1926)
10 min | Short, Music
Dressed in overalls and wearing black-face makeup, Jolson sings three of his hit songs. For the complete list, follow the soundtrack link.
Director: Philip Roscoe | Star: Al Jolson
Votes: 269
26. Scrap the Japs (1942)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Popeye, punished with tedious chores on an aircraft carrier, leaps into action when a Japanese bomber, hiding behind a fake cloud, attacks the ship.
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Thomas Johnson | Star: Jack Mercer
Votes: 110
27. Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat (1941)
Not Rated | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The black residents of Lazy Town are bored one day until a sultry light-skinned woman shows up to teach them what rhythm is.
Director: Walter Lantz | Stars: Ivie Anderson, Mel Blanc, Leroy Hurte Chorus, Nellie Lutcher
Votes: 550
28. Song of the South (1946)
G | 94 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.
Directors: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten
Votes: 15,224 | Gross: $63.72M
29. Ten Little Nigger Boys (1912)
6 min | Animation, Short
Nursery rhyme enacted by toys.
Director: Arthur Melbourne Cooper
Votes: 41
30. Tokio Jokio (1943)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A newsreel from Japan with updates on the war effort.
Director: Norm McCabe | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 436
31. You're a Sap, Mr. Jap (1942)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Popeye takes on the Japanese Navy single-handedly.
Directors: Dan Gordon, Dave Fleischer, James Tyer | Star: Jack Mercer
Votes: 302
32. Wacky Wigwams (1942)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short
A cartoon satire---yes, it is now politically incorrect---on Indian life on and off the reservation. It is filled with black-out sight gags, word-play and caricatures involving ... See full summary »
Directors: Alec Geiss, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Frank Graham, Danny Webb
Votes: 9
33. Watermelon Contest (1896)
1 min | Short, Comedy
Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.
Director: James H. White
Votes: 319
34. Watermelon Contest (1900)
2 min | Short, Comedy
Four men each hold a large slice of watermelon, and have a race to see who can finish eating first. All four move quickly, but one man seems to be pulling ahead of the others. Soon the contestants begin to hinder one another's efforts.
Director: James H. White
Votes: 160
35. The Watermelon Patch (1905)
11 min | Comedy, Short
Several men take watermelons from a melon patch, and are pursued.
Directors: Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 157
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