this was long before cartoons were ever thought of as ‘for kids’, the target audience of this one was roughly 20-40
betty boop cartoons featuring cab calloway singing, yes, but slang has changed so much you dont realize he was singing about opium, sugar daddies, death, weed, sex, booze, and gambling back when gambling was nearly as tabboo as sex and drugs. ‘minnie the moocher’ where cab calloway is a dancing walrus is specifically about someone who does literally everything on that list but die
most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels
fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic
idk why this is making me so emotional???
I love this. I’ve always had a love for cartoons
Cab Calloway, he was a legend performer and entertainer, although he’s listed as a jazz singer he did much more with his voice, his singing style and delivery was very unique. Cab (with his band) was the first black artist to sell over a million copies of a single record and he paved the way for many artists to come. Happy Black History Month.
sorry to make this long post longer, but I feel like it needed some actual photos of Cab Calloway, who is, in fact, the greatest
commercial fishermen dumped concrete into Mi’kmaw lobster holding tanks. this is an act of terrorism. that’s our food bruh
and by commercial fishermen I really mean white terrorists
also, they burned down a boat, burned down a van, and trapped 2 Mi’kmaw fishermen in a building with over 100+ commercial fishermen outside threatening to burn the building down with them inside. where were the rcmp? oh they were there, and they heard everything. they just said there’s too many people and they can’t do anything. they’re not doing anything.
If the roles were reversed we would be militarized right now. they would bring in the military and they’ve done things like this in the past. Look up the OKA CRISIS yall
the rcmp were LETTING THEM THROW ROCKS AND OTHER DEBRIS AT OUR MIKMAW FISHERMEN. Nova Scotia are you proud of this ?????? are you proud of your rcmp ?????? nova scotia strong my fucking ass bro.
and I think the worst part is we will not retaliate because we know what will happen to us. history never fails to repeat itself. Canada is Racist.
I didn’t know Mr. T pityed fool’s that weren’t woke, but that’s awesome. #respect
“I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’. So I questioned myself:“What does a black man have to do before he’s given the respect as a man?” So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is “Mr.” That’s a sign of respect that my father didn’t get, that my brother didn’t get, that my mother didn’t get.“
-Mr. T on the subject of his name
I had no idea he put this much thought into this wow
I wonder why we dont hear about this…
Mr. T’s raw power vaporizing the guy in the last gif
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