On Apr 16, 9:50 am, "Feuillade" <Feuill...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2:04 am, "Joe Gillis" <FloatingInTheP...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:> Finally got a chance to see this legendary, long-suppresed
"racist"
> > cartoon, via Google video:
>
>
>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6692183412698726335&q=genre%...
>
> This cartoon (usually in a pretty mediocre copy) has been on and off
> Google Video and You Tube for months. Someone puts it up, it gets
> taken off, it goes up again.
>
> This link won't be valid for very long.
>
>
>
> > If you can get put up with the stereotypes (which are at least good-
> > natured rather than hostile), this is a pleasant enough example of
> > director Robert Clampett's work, though IMHO not in the same league as
> > his 1946 masterpiece "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery".
>
> I disagree -- as would most animation critics. "Coal Black" is one of
> the most brilliant animated shorts ever made. Having seen it on a big
> screen several times (before this country got so stupidly politically
> correct), I can say that it represents Clampett's best work. The fact
> that it's not available on DVD is just idiotic.
>
> > One surprise -- there's a brief reference to Citizen Kane!
>
> There are a lot of references to a lot of things -- including a nice
> parody of a shot in Disney's "Snow White."
>
> Tom Moran
Makes a good double bill with "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips"
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