Dennis Nyback presents: Bad Bugs Bunny

Sunday 20, Kriterion 1, 18:00

These politically very incorrect cartoons from the forties are guaranteed to offend a wide range of people. They are filled with racism, sexism and violence and were once mainstream fair. But now they are almost never seen, except in screenings by Dennis Nyback.

 


Sioux Me / Sioux Me / Unknown / Year of production: 1939 / USA / :

Native American stereotypes.

 
 
He Was Her Man / He Was Her Man / Unknown / Year of production: 1936 / USA / :

Extreme violence toward women.

 
 
Let It Be Me / Let It Be Me / Unknown / Year of production: 1936 / USA / :

Caricature of Bing Crosby as woman abusing cad.
He sued Warner¹s to stop the showing of this cartoon. General sexism was censored later.

 
 
Ali Baba Bound / Ali Baba Bound / Unknown / Year of production: 1940 / USA / :

Arab stereotypes including a comic look at a
suicide bomber.

 
 
Tokyo Jokio / Tokyo Jokio / Unknown / Year of production: 1943 / / :

Extremely tasteless WW II propaganda in the form of a Japanese newsreel.

 
 
Wise Quackers / Wise Quackers / Unknown / Year of production: 1949 / USA / :

The newest cartoon in the show. Most of the
jokes are about slavery.

 
 
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips / Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips / Unknown / Year of production: 1944 / USA / :

More Japanese bashing from WW II

 
 
Tin Pan Alley Cats / Tin Pan Alley Cats / Unknown / Year of production: 1943 / USA / :

An all black character cartoon starring a
caricature of Fats Waller. One of the "Censored Eleven" cartoons
singled out to never be shown again in 1968.

 
 
Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs / Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs / Unknown / Year of production: 1943 / USA / :

Another of the "Censored Eleven." A pardody of "Snow White" set in Harlem.

 
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