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Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat (1941)
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28 March 1941 (USA) morePlot:
Lazy black folks in Lazy Town (Pop. 123½) are napping and attracting flies. They are so lethargic they even fight in slow motion... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Cast) | Mel Blanc | ... | Boat Captain / Fighter One / Fighter Two / Mammy Washing Clothes / Various Citizens (uncredited) |
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Ordinarilly, cartoons from this vintage that contain these minstrel-show derived caricatures don't really offend me that much, as all the studios at that time did them (Fleisher, Warner, heck, Van Beuren even had an "Amos 'n' Andy" series)...But "Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat"...
That one hurt.
I've never, in all my life, seen a film which literally REVELS in its xenophobia...all the men are depicted as sub-human apes with black animal-type noses and huge, floppy lips (or, more accurately, a simianesque muzzle), and the women are variations of the old "Mammy" stereotype (with the exception of the High-yalla Sista from Harlem and the trio of shapely washerwomen with the see-thru skirts...one of the few good things about this cartoon.) The only true positive in this cartoon (aside from the shapely washerwomen triplets) is Darrell Calker's driving musical score, proving once and for all the adage about music and the "savage" breast. The instrumental portion of the film alone makes up for its hurtful images...but not by much.
Walter Lantz has often said that his musical films "never offended or degraded the (sic) colored race", and, indeed, most of the films he produced following this one (particularly "Boogie-Woogie Bugel Boy of Company B") are pretty decent in terms of music and character design (no better or worse than Warner's concurrent "Coal Black and de Sebben Drawfs"), but "Scrub me Mama With A Boogie Beat" undermines its vibrant musicality (and, admittedly, its very funny gags...the cat and dog sequence is a hoot!) with its hateful and hurtful depictions of African Americans.