John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)

Directed by

George Pal

Genre

fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

8 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An animated puppet retelling of the legend of John Henry. John Henry races against a steam-powered machine to prove that human strength and spirit can overcome technology.

folkloricmusicalupbeatnostalgicwhimsicalearnestold-fashionedenergetic

What happens

John Henry and the Inky-Poo is a 1946 animated Puppetoons short directed by George Pal and supervised by George E. Jordan. The film is based on African American folk hero John Henry. John Henry and the Inky-Poo was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short for the 19th Academy Awards. In 2015, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It was also included in the 1987 compilation film The Puppetoon Movie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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