Africa Squeaks is a 1940 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
Title[]
The title is a play on the 1930 documentary film Africa Speaks!
Plot[]
Porky is a big-game hunter in darkest Africa. Porky and his crew run across Spencer Tracy as Stanley. They discover a native village where Cake-Icer (Kay Kyser) has the jungle jumping with his jive.
Caricatures[]
- Spencer Tracy as Henry Morton Stanley
- Henry Morton Stanley
- Tony Galento
- Kay Kyser
- Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
Availability[]
Censorship[]
- The redrawn colorized and computer colorized versions on Nickelodeon severely edited this cartoon to remove all the sequences of the African natives. The redrawn colorized version edited the ending by replacing the shot of Africa as a blackfaced caricature bidding farewell to the viewer with a repeat of the opening pan from Dark Africa to Darkest Africa while the computer-colorized ending freeze-framed on the shot of Africa before it turns into a blackface caricature. Both versions play the audio normally.[3][4][5]
Notes[]
- This short is a parody of the live-action feature film Stanley & Livingstone (1939).
- This cartoon reuses animation from "The Isle of Pingo Pongo" (which, coincidentally, is a Censored Eleven cartoon that has been banned for its depiction of African caricatures. Contrast with this short, which did air on television [albeit severely edited] and did get an uncut and uncensored home media release), most notably the scene where the two fat native women dance.
- Cake-Icer is voiced by Kay Kyser himself.
- Despite not being a Censored Eleven cartoon, "Africa Squeaks" hasn't aired on American television since the 1960s due to heavy African stereotyping. Nickelodeon in the 1990s aired this, both as a redrawn version and a computer-colorized version with edits done (see "Censorship" above). Recently, it was released on the Porky 101 DVD set uncut and in its original black and white form.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries
- ↑ (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media.
- ↑ http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-a.aspx
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ckMCh7Su3M
- ↑ dailymotion