Colored cartoon about how The old Kentucky home "was saved on the racetrack."Colored cartoon about how The old Kentucky home "was saved on the racetrack."Colored cartoon about how The old Kentucky home "was saved on the racetrack."
Photos
Roy Glenn
- Old Black Joe Vocalist
- (uncredited)
Rudolf Ising
- Simon Legree
- (uncredited)
The Metropolitans
- Vocalists
- (uncredited)
Johnny Murray
- Graham Cracker
- (uncredited)
The Rhythmettes
- Vocalists
- (uncredited)
Carol Tevis
- Young Girl
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Rudolf Ising(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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- Quotes
Old Colonel Julep: [clears throat] Well, sir! What brings you here, sir?
Simon DeGree: Colonel Julep, sir.
[Simon shows the mortgage papers]
Simon DeGree: Your mortgage must be paid today or the old Kain-tucky home is MINE!
[evil laugh]
Old Colonel Julep: [angrily stammers] NO, SIR!
Simon DeGree: [incensed] Sir, you rue the day you insulted Simon DeGree! Remember! Re-member!
Old Colonel Julep: [hoarsely] Black Beauty must win the race!
- SoundtracksPickin' Cotton
(uncredited)
Music by William Hanna and Scott Bradley
Lyrics by William Hanna and Scott Bradley
Featured review
Beautfil and gross at the same time.
The beginning of this cartoon says it's in Technicolor and that surprised me. After all, full color Technicolor (using the three color strip technology) was only in use in cartoons by Disney because they signed an exclusive deal and the competitors needed to use alternate (and inferior) color processes such as Two Color Technicolor and Cinecolor. However, I checked and this cartoon was made just AFTER the Disney monopoly ended and as such it makes it one of the first non-Disney full color cartoons ever made. It's also hellishly awful!
So why is this such a terrible cartoon? Well imagine showing a cartoon to kids that is filled with 'happy darkies' living on the plantation in pre-Civil War days! It's just chock full of black characters in pickininny braids and enacting the sort of safe and disgusting characters the public embraced at that time. No maltreatment of the slaves in this film...they are like one giant happy family and the family needs a wise head...which, naturally, is the genial slave master!! All this is god-awful and filled with caricatures of the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" characters. Sadly, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was a wonderful story and was never meant to be anything like this tripe.
Not surprisingly, you don't see this one on TV today...even if it's important historically due to its use of full color. If you are curious, it's on YouTube as well as many even more offensive cartoons which have been yanked from circulation due to their negative portrayals of blacks and Asians.
So why is this such a terrible cartoon? Well imagine showing a cartoon to kids that is filled with 'happy darkies' living on the plantation in pre-Civil War days! It's just chock full of black characters in pickininny braids and enacting the sort of safe and disgusting characters the public embraced at that time. No maltreatment of the slaves in this film...they are like one giant happy family and the family needs a wise head...which, naturally, is the genial slave master!! All this is god-awful and filled with caricatures of the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" characters. Sadly, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was a wonderful story and was never meant to be anything like this tripe.
Not surprisingly, you don't see this one on TV today...even if it's important historically due to its use of full color. If you are curious, it's on YouTube as well as many even more offensive cartoons which have been yanked from circulation due to their negative portrayals of blacks and Asians.
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- planktonrules
- Jan 28, 2017
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Happy Harmonies (1935-1936 Season) #1: The Old Plantation
- Production company
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- Runtime10 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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