Africa Squeaks
| Title: | Africa Squeaks |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Directors: | Robert Clampett |
| Actors: | Mel Blanc | Robert C. Bruce |
| Rating: | 6.0 | 18 votes |
| Languages: | English |
| Color: | Black and White |
| Country: | USA |
| Company: | Leon Schlesinger Studios |
| Genres: | Family | Animation | Short | Comedy |
| Plot: | |
| Porky Pig goes on a safari in Africa, and runs into an assortment of crazy animals, wacky natives and Kay Kyser giving dance lessons in the middle of the jungle. | |
| Comments: | |
| 1) Obviously, Bob Clampett's "Africa Squeaks" has some of the most racistimages of African people. But, as was usually the case in Warner Bros.cartoons containing racist depictions of Africans andAfrican-Americans, the portrayals were not based on hostility; rather,the people making the cartoons had seen only these images of Africanpeople, and repeated them. For example, Clampett's "Coal Black and deSebben Dwarfs" contains some of the most offensive depictions ofAfrican-Americans, while simultaneously exalting their contributions topopular culture.
Anyway, this cartoon has Porky Pig on vacation in Africa – which theyobnoxiously call "the dark continent" – and coming across a series ofspot gags. His stereotypically-drawn porters are basically StepinFetchit types. Like I said, the cartoon's good for a few laughs, justas long as we understand the racist portrayals. BTW, Cake Icer was a parody of band leader Kay Kyser. Also, one scenewas lifted out of "The Isle of Pingo Pongo", and another scene latergot used in "Crazy Cruise". |
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