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Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (S)

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Original title: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (So White and de Sebben Dwarfs)
Year: 1943
Running time: 7 min.
Country: United States
Director: Bob Clampett
Screenwriter: Warren Foster
Cast: Animation
Music: Carl W. Stalling
Cinematography: Animation
Producer: Warner Bros.
Genre: Animation. Comedy | Black Comedy. Parody. Racism. Short Film (Animated). Looney Tunes
Synopsis: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (working title: So White and de Sebben Dwarfs) is a Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Bob Clampett, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, and released to theatres on January 16, 1943 by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation.

The film is notable for being an all-black parody of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow-White, known to its audience from the popular 1937 Walt Disney animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The stylistic portrayal of the characters, however, is an example of darky iconography (see blackface), which was widely accepted in white American society at the time. As such, it is one of the most controversial cartoons in the classic Warner Bros. library, has been rarely seen on television, and (because it is one of the Censored Eleven; see below) has never been officially released on home video. However, it is often named as one of the best cartoons ever made,[1] in part for its African-American-inspired jazz and swing music, and is considered one of Clampett's masterpieces.

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Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (S)

1943

Bob Clampett

5.4

(143)