Jungle Jitters (1938)

Directed by

Friz Freleng

Genre

cannibal film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An animated comedy short from 1938 that is part of the Merrie Melodies series. It features exaggerated humor that today is recognized for its heavy racial stereotypes of black people.

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What happens

Jungle Jitters is a 1938 American animated comedy short film directed by Isadore Freleng. The short was released on February 19, 1938. It is the 90th film in the Merrie Melodies series. Because of the racial stereotypes of black people throughout the short, it prompted United Artists to withhold it from syndication within the United States in 1968. As such, the short was placed into the Censored Eleven, a group of eleven Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts withheld from official television distribution in the United States since 1968 due to heavy stereotyping of black people; because its copyright had already lapsed without renewal a year before this decision, it has remained publicly available through numerous unofficial distributors via secondhand prints. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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