Buddy of the Apes

Buddy of the Apes is a 1934 Looney Tunes short directed by Ben Hardaway.
== Plot ==
Buddy encounters African natives. He gets help from animals, and together they fight half-naked natives.
== Television ==
* Sunset Productions (1955–1968)
== Censorship ==
* The Guild Films/Sunset Productions print of this short cuts the scene of the "look-out" cannibal native alerting the cannibal chief about Buddy and the animals.https://web.archive.org/web/20240224055633/https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-b.aspx
* This short seldom airs on American television due to heavy African stereotyping that would be deemed offensive to modern audiences. It was in Nickelodeon's broadcast library when the channel had legal rights to air the Warner Bros cartoons, but the short never aired because of outdated racial stereotyping.
== Notes ==
* The audio of Buddy's Tarzan yell was later reused for the Johnny Weissmuller caricature in "The CooCoo Nut Grove" (1936).
* The animation of the African Natives running towards the camera was later reused in "Buddy's Theatre" (1935) and "Speaking of the Weather" (1937), and they're re-drawn as the Dirty Sleeves in "Ali-Baba Bound" (1940).
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:1934
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Buddy Cartoons
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons animated by Sandy Walker
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Bernard Brown
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Black-and-white cartoons