Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937)
- Directed by
- Tex Avery
- Genre
- animation, comedy
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rating
- 4.8 of 10 from 17 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This short cartoon parodies the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and plantation melodramas of the 1930s. It uses exaggerated humor and stereotypes. The film is part of the Censored Eleven and is rarely shown today.
satiricalfast-pacedparodicdatedslapstickracially-stereotyping
What happens
Uncle Tom's Bungalow is a 1937 American animated comedy short film directed by Fred Avery. It was released on June 5, 1937. It is the 75th film in the Merrie Melodies series. The short cartoon is a parody of the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and of the "plantation melodrama" genre of the 1930s. Because of the racial stereotypes of black people throughout the short, it is withheld from circulation, one of the "Censored Eleven" shorts. Brief segments did, however, appear in Turner Entertainment's 1989 home video release, Cartoons For Big Kids, hosted by Leonard Maltin. It was exhibited once, along with other films as part of "The Censored Eleven" at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood on April 24, 2010, as part of a classic film series, presented by Donald Bogle. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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