With being pleased about recently tracking down a "lost" animated short from Columbia called Kitty Caddy,I decided to start searching for another "lost" cartoon short from 1947.
Checking on Youtube for the film,I was disappointed to only find 30 second clips from the short,with comments underneath saying that Youtube have "banned" the full thing from being put loaded up,due to some of the racist nature of the movie.
Struggleing to find any sign of the full film,I started to do an extensive video search online,until I thankfully ended up finding the movie,being kept in the corner,hidden from view.
The plot:
Sitting down with a group of children outside his cabin,Uncle Tom begins to tell them about how his cabin almost got knocked down.
The past:
Finding him and his small cabin stuck between the skyscrapers of New York,Tom decides that no matter how much money is offered to him the sell the land,he is going to stay firm and keep his home safe.
Furious over Tom not selling the land,businessmen Simon Legree visits the cabin,and tells Tom that if he is unable to pay his mortgage by tomorrow,he will be chucked straight out of his beloved cabin.
Upset over not having a single penny on him,Tom phones his friend Little Eva to tell her his woes.Sadden by hearing Tom so upset,Eva gives Tom the lifeline he needs,when she tells him that they may just about be able to save his cabin,if they turn it into a cabana.
View on the film:
Being made 67 years ago,the animation designs by Tex Avery are unsurprisingly not that pc,with Avery giving Legree pointed ears and a hooked nose,whilst Uncle Tom is given greatly exaggerated lips.
Despite the designs of the characters in the movie (which is a follow-up to Avery's still banned 1937 (!) Uncle Tom's Cabin) being off putting,director Avery and writer Heck Allen are impressively able to make a short that is still zany,very funny and also a little ahead of its time.Mocking Harriet Beecher stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin novel,Avery make this cigar-chomping Uncle Tom one who is real feisty,who also makes the woman who helped him out, (little Eva) his co-business partner and treats her as an equal!.
Along with the paring of Tom and Eva,Avery's makes Legree's reaction to catching an eyeful of Eva as something particularly funny in this great short which has sadly been left to fade into history.
Checking on Youtube for the film,I was disappointed to only find 30 second clips from the short,with comments underneath saying that Youtube have "banned" the full thing from being put loaded up,due to some of the racist nature of the movie.
Struggleing to find any sign of the full film,I started to do an extensive video search online,until I thankfully ended up finding the movie,being kept in the corner,hidden from view.
The plot:
Sitting down with a group of children outside his cabin,Uncle Tom begins to tell them about how his cabin almost got knocked down.
The past:
Finding him and his small cabin stuck between the skyscrapers of New York,Tom decides that no matter how much money is offered to him the sell the land,he is going to stay firm and keep his home safe.
Furious over Tom not selling the land,businessmen Simon Legree visits the cabin,and tells Tom that if he is unable to pay his mortgage by tomorrow,he will be chucked straight out of his beloved cabin.
Upset over not having a single penny on him,Tom phones his friend Little Eva to tell her his woes.Sadden by hearing Tom so upset,Eva gives Tom the lifeline he needs,when she tells him that they may just about be able to save his cabin,if they turn it into a cabana.
View on the film:
Being made 67 years ago,the animation designs by Tex Avery are unsurprisingly not that pc,with Avery giving Legree pointed ears and a hooked nose,whilst Uncle Tom is given greatly exaggerated lips.
Despite the designs of the characters in the movie (which is a follow-up to Avery's still banned 1937 (!) Uncle Tom's Cabin) being off putting,director Avery and writer Heck Allen are impressively able to make a short that is still zany,very funny and also a little ahead of its time.Mocking Harriet Beecher stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin novel,Avery make this cigar-chomping Uncle Tom one who is real feisty,who also makes the woman who helped him out, (little Eva) his co-business partner and treats her as an equal!.
Along with the paring of Tom and Eva,Avery's makes Legree's reaction to catching an eyeful of Eva as something particularly funny in this great short which has sadly been left to fade into history.
