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Swing Social is entertaining if a little politically incorrect
Author:
tavm from Baton Rouge, La.
7 June 2007
In this politically incorrect cartoon from 1940, a black preacher on
Sunday has caught a black fisherman not going to church. He then tells
of why black fish don't bite on the sabbath as we are treated to a
musical sequence of Negro fish singing about the devil and what he
represents and how to defeat him. I suppose one should be relieved that
the human black characters are only seen from the neck down though
there's still some of the mangled English dialect to deal with. The
music is for the most part entertaining and mostly avoids stereotyping
(brief fried chicken sequence notwithstanding). Certainly worth seeing
for anyone who loves swing music and loves all '30s and '40s animation
styles. Directed by Rudolf Ising who previously created Bosko with Hugh
Harmon.
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