12/06/2010

Racist cartoon Santa's Surprise (1947)

A racist cartoon for Christmas? Oh my. Back in 1947, was there no objection in the animation department at Paramount Pictures? Did no one in the studio department cry fowl at all of the racist images and characters?

Ugg...apparently not.

The IMDB description says: "Five children from around the world follow Santa home on Christmas Eve, and decide to give him some extra help around the workshop."

I can't think of another Christmas cartoon that is so racist.

4 comments:

  1. I am so much in awe at the amount of research you do for this blog. Thank you so much. Did you ever think of trying to do a blog "film club"?

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  2. Hi Daniele! No, I haven't given too much thought of it. I did one time consider asking a friend of mine to be a co-blogger. It just never worked out.

    Some other blogs have many team members and writers but for this one, it is just myself. I think I will keep it that way so that readers know that they are reading my opinions.

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  3. All I can say is that your blog should be on film studies curricula. Hopefully I wil be able to give you more input that just "Wow" and "amazing". But I am just lapping it up.

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  4. Thanks Daniele. Feel free to drop by anytime!

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