For those interested, Famous Studios was the renamed Fleischer Studios after Paramount acquired it, after the Fleischer brothers left in 1942. You can see a lot of Fleischer touches in the animation, as well as William Pennell as the conductor, who also voiced Bluto from the Popeye cartoons at this time.
I found my old tape of this cartoon :( Father used to let us watch this before going to sleep. We never get tired of watching this again and again hahahaha and I love the banana scene
I never saw this as racist when I was a kid. It wasn't until racism was taught to me and that's how I realized that people are different and we're not all the same. Such a fucked up thing to teach a child.
This is so stupid. Just because you don’t see something as racist doesn’t mean it’s not. Racism exists and it might not affect you but it does a lot of people
Showed this to my 8 year old daughter and told her I had watched this on a tape same age as she is now. What was her comment? Lulu is going to have a hard time pooping. (She was eating a lot of bananas.)
Oh wow! Heh I used to watch this cartoon back then as a kid too. Now that I am in my mid 30's I still feel very happy to have watch this great and classic Little Lulu cartoon movie again.
When I was a little boy before I understood the concept of stereotype, I always thought the black guy carrying the luggage in the beginning was an anthropomorphic cow
Even though the colors might be a bit off Paramount's painting looked really good here, especially liked the seats (and the passengers) on the train. But that conductor was one mean sonuvabitch.
Thanks for making the technical corrections to this cartoon. It's in about the same condition as the last time I saw it on TV about 35 years ago. My own personal VHS copy doesn't look this good. My copy looks like color was an after thought.
Lots of stereotypes - *white woman* with a beautiful body in a bikini; railroad conductor who is *fat and ignorant*. Don't get me going about *racial*. This is a frickin cartoon.
Racist images rarely appeared in the Fleischer cartoons...maybe in one or two Betty Boop works but popeye was devoid of black's being ridiculed. Only when Paramount took over the studios did such atrocity become a common occurrence.
By showing all the characteristic stereotypes ( even totally over the top ), it holds a mirror to the spectator. That's what we call satire. I consider ( the original) 27 Little Lulu- episodes as pure classics, if not the best in the genre, at least comparable with Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Langstrumpf. It's a pity that there's only so few of it.
Presumably in case she lost it. I've never seen her with any kind of pockets, so I suppose it stands to reason that she'd use her sock as a pocket in the absence.
Little Lulu Moppet not the person one could ever trust with banana peels (Making her debut in the Saturday Evening Post as a flower girl at a wedding tossing banana peels rather than flower petals.).
5:46 I had this on my 50 Classic Cartoons tapes as a kid..........And I am shocked at how many of the shorts on those tapes had these disgusting blackface gags. This never should have been in a thing back then.
Lançamento nos EUA: 23 de maio de 1946. Produção e direção: Seymour Kmeitel. Co-produção: Izzy Sparber. Produtor associado: Sam Buchwald. Música original e orquestrações: Winston Sharples. Sistema sonoro: RCA. Vozes: Cecil Roy (Luluzinha), Jackson Beck (motorista do trem) e Jack Mercer (vendedor de refrigerante). Distribuição original: Paramount Pictures.
Michael Mcgee it was probably filmed in two-strip Technicolor, which only uses red and green hues in films. It is the color process that many cartoon studios used (besides Disney) to make color cartoons before 1935. Disney had exclusive rights to use full Technicolor, but other studios had to use the two-strip process, which was cheaper. Occasionally studios would use it in the 1940s to make lower budget cartoons. This was probably one of them.
plant grl In New York, Ch. 5 already was editing the Lulu cartoons (and the pre-1948 Warner Bros. and other Paramount shorts they had) by 1961 to eliminate racial stereotypes. The NAACP had protested back in their early 1950s over images of blacks on television, in shows like "Amos & Andy" and the Hollywood/New York animation studios took the hint, with characteriztions like Mandy/Petunia in the Little Lulu/Little Audrey series or Mammy in the Tom & Jerry series disappearing by 1952 (though that didn't mean you couldn't still get a cartoon censored -- Do a Google search for 1958's "Chew Chew Baby" -- it was part of the Harvey animation package but never was aired by Ch. 5 in New York after the cartoons went to syndication in 1962).
Little Lulu was too clever in this video as she kept getting back on the train after the conductor kept kicking her out every time, but he finally allowed her to stay in it as Lulu finally found her ticket and gave it to him and why did he get out of the back of the carriage and pretended to be a train by crawling along the track and making the noise of it? 🚂
Do you have copies of Lulu Gets The Birdie,Eggs Don't Bounce,or A Scout With A Gout in quality this good? If so could you please upload them? Thanks for posting all these other great quality copies!
When I was a kid I had a bunch of cartoons on a tape and this was one of them...there was also one with a really train making weird faces, blowing steam and speeding through some tunnels, I know it sounds stupid, but maybe somebody knows the name of that cartoon? Nevermind I found it here in case if anyone remembers it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9zBwdCpkJGc.html
I remember watching this at my Nan's house when I was a kid. I always said the conductor in this is very rude. Also I just realises how racist this is. Anyway it was made back when racism wasn't an issue.
I think it's important to keep the past intact as it was, despite the completely inappropriate/awful things they contain by today's standards. Preserving things as they were can show progress in many areas, censoring it mutes those points and will only cause more strife breaking such thoughts. These were made decades before I was born, recorded by my parents and/or grand-parents. The racial undertones weren't apparent until I was older, but I see it now and don't understand why. The way I see it, only ignorant people can judge someone by the color of their skin, by their ethnicity, background, carry on... These are period piece, leave them as they are. ( I think Andy Warhol is shit, but some say it's art; I won't argue with them though I will avoid it at all cost).
DJM-anon Imagine us being judged by people of the 22nd century. Would we say our morals and standards are correct and theirs are wrong? Or would they be right? Think about it.
People dont like the racial stereotypes? Then look at todays cartoons portraying black women with bad attitudes, ghetto language and large rear ends. No outrage. Are stereotypes lies?
What do you mean, Kac? Also, this was made by Marge who was the author of this cartoon program. As a matter of fact, her full name was "Marjorie Henderson" and sadly, she died 30 years ago.
@@cooperlumsden2131 Simply. Some of the characters in these Little Lulu cartoons look to me like they were drawn by someone other than Marge. Like that hawk from the cartoon "I'm Just Curious"; Grasshopper and Ant from "It's Nifty to Be Thrifty"; photographer from "Snap Happy" or these caricatures of African-Americans. Don't you feel the same?
The reason why there are racial problems is because of people like you who excuse racism because "no one cared". The white bigots who weren't affected by it didn't care, but the black people who had to live with discrimination because of the false images that cartoons like these portrayed did.
Do you know who watches cartoons? Children do. Children who grow up to become racist adults because of the ideas that were introduced into their minds when they were young. Just look at the way whites were acting during the civil rights movement. Beating protesters, blowing up churches, and turning loose dogs on children. What do you think they were watching when they were young in the 40s?
Jelena Jeanine excuse me but I watched this before and it didn't bother me at all since I was just a kid in the 2000s and just saw the character as wierd but not instantly connecting it towards a racial stereotype until much later when I knew it was one
Jelena Jeanine I TOTALLY agree with you. There are those people who just never linked on to what this really meant, and I'm guessing the people who keep trying to defend themselves (the ones who are backstabbing you) don't know what it means. Even though this Little Lulu was made ALL THE WAY BACK IN THE 40's, anyone of a different race can still get highly offended by it (not that enough trash is still said about ANYTHING to this present day)
