Tom And Jerry: Plane Dumb
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Tom and Jerry are transporting goods via airplane to Africa. But being white men they’re worried they won’t be safe, so they put on blackface to fit in. Once they’re wearing it, they adopt black dialect and fully inhabit their new characters. They crash into the ocean and use the wing of the plane as a raft. Before reaching land, they suffer the advances of an over-affectionate octopus and more serious danger from sharks, a swordfish and a whale. Once on land, they’re frightened by fantastic creatures, and duck into a cave. Inside it’s even worse when they encounter living skeletons in blackface. And upon exiting the cave, things are even worse than that when they are discovered by cannibals.
December 10th, 2004 at 8:53 am
This is a particularly hideous early 1930s Van Beuren cartoon. Bad timing, bad drawing, bad animation, weak story, everything about this is technically awful. However, it is so enormously politically incorrect, I give it five stars.
Tom and Jerry pointlessly morph into black characters, strictly to allow haphazard Amos & Andy schtick. Then a bunch of crazy stuff happens, and the cartoon ends with Tom and Jerry being chased by cannibals – the bone-inna-nose kind you don’t see in cartoons today. Guaranteed to amuse and offend!
March 24th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
why does this feature various scenes seemingly directly ripped out of minnie the moocher and bamboo isle by the fleischers?
did one steal from the other?
either way this aint half as good as the aforementioned. still very entertaining though. audio not so good on the 256 …
and wow. yes. politically out of this world
March 24th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Here is a very funny cartoon. I have a copy of this I found on a dollar disc from Target. Thank goodness this has survived! When animation was from the heart!
May 6th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Racist, But the animation is so good that I don’t mind.