The Censored 11: “Goldilocks and the Jivin’ Bears” (1944)
The most recent of the Censored Eleven cartoons from Warner Brothers – and the only film among the eleven to have been produced by Eddie Selzer.
The most recent of the Censored Eleven cartoons from Warner Brothers – and the only film among the eleven to have been produced by Eddie Selzer.
Angel Puss is distinct among the Eleven for reasons besides Chuck Jones’ direction of it. It has neither jazz celebrities nor any of the Warner Bros. Cartoons major stars.
The eighth installment of my Censored Eleven series of columns looks at the 1943 Technicolor “Merrie Melodies” episode Tin Pan Alley Cats from Warner Brothers.
The seventh cartoon of the Censored Eleven is the third and final one from director Tex Avery, and it is also the only film of the series to star Bugs Bunny.
The sixth cartoon of the Censored Eleven is Tex Avery’s The Isle of Pingo Pongo. This cartoon is all spot-gags, a parody of then-common travel documentary shorts.
If you were to look at a map of Africa from February 1938, you would find a continent full of European colonies. Many of the countries identified themselves in the…
The fourth cartoon of the “Censored Eleven”, and the first by Avery on the list, is a parody of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antebellum, antislavery novel.
The third article of this series is about the “Merrie Melodies” cartoon “Clean Pastures”. It’s a parody of the Warner Brothers movie “The Green Pastures”.
The second article of the “Censored Eleven” series is about the Warner Brothers “Merrie Melodies” cartoon Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time (1936) – a film based around a tune by…
On a monthly basis, I will examine each of the notorious Warner Bros. cartoons now collectively known as the “Censored 11”.