JUNGLE JITTERS🚩PRO | Classic Cartoon | A Merrie Melodie Cartoon
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Date: 2022-06-29

JUNGLE JITTERS🚩PRO | Classic Cartoon | A Merrie Melodie Cartoon

Jungle Jitters is a 1938 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on February 19, 1938. 
Because of the racial stereotypes of black people throughout the short, it prompted United Artists to withhold it from syndication within the United States in 1968. As such, the short was placed into the Censored Eleven, a group of eleven Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts withheld from official television distribution in the United States since 1968 due to heavy stereotyping of black people; because its copyright had already lapsed without renewal a year before this decision, it has remained publicly available through numerous unofficial distributors via secondhand prints.
In a jungle, a primitive tribe of people with black noses and dark skin with light muzzles are going about their day, with the jungle elements being intertwined with modern-day gags; for example, the people dancing around a tent (in a style more reminiscent of Native American fire dances) when it turns into a makeshift merry-go-round, to the tune of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," which promptly deflates and slows to a halt, and at least one of the denizens wears a top hat in resemblance of minstrel show stereotypes.
A traveling dog-faced salesman named Manny (a parody of Al Pearce's character Elmer Blurt) comes by to offer them the latest in "assorted useful, useless, utensils". The natives, after initially trying their hardest to avoid him, decide he would make a delicious dinner, so they invite him in, ransack his goods, and throw him into a cauldron while a mammy chef prepares him as soup. They proceed to familiarize themselves with vacuum cleaners, batteries, light bulbs, etc.
The village queen (depicted as an old, chicken-like white woman, possibly to avoid any problems with the Hays code over the issue of miscegenation) hears of the arrival of the salesman, and desperate for a husband, she brings him in. As Manny delivers his sales pitch, the queen sees him as Clark Gable and Robert Taylor and is smitten, demanding her to be married right away. The two are rushed into a marriage, and when asked to kiss the bride, Manny panics and jumps back into the cauldron; in a closing shot, he curses his captors with the hope that "they all get indigestion" as he submerges into the pot to his death.
More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Jitters

Directed by I. Freleng
Story by Geo. Manuell
Produced by Leon Schlesinger
Starring Mel Blanc Tedd Pierce
Edited by Treg Brown
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Animation by Phil Monroe, Rod Scribner, A.C. Gamer
Layouts by Griff Jay
Backgrounds by Art Loomer
Color process Technicolor
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date  February 19, 1938

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