I was trying to work out who the other birds were based on. I think Cock Robin was Bing Crosby Cuckoo was Harpo Marx Blackbird was Stepin Fetchit And as a guess .. Sparrow is perhaps Edward G Robinson Parrot is possibly James Stewart 🤔
So the color version made it a new impression for you😅color was new when this was made, just as sound was evolving.😊this is so nice whomever posted it, thank you😅
You know, the more of these I watched after these, I'm slowly beginning to realise that every show and character in the actually good days of Disney is connected (in the same universe)
Famous Studios later 'borrowed' several plot points (a Harpo Marx cuckoo, an arrow that turns out to be love's arrow, etc.) for their version starring Little Audrey, "The Case of the Cockeyed Canary" in 1952.
If anyone finds similar cartoons to the animation and plot as this pls post below, I like to save these in a Playlist and watch them with family at night when we are on vacations at hotel, just adds a little wholesomeness than our typical Dateline obsession, anyways thanks ❤
Who killed Cock Robin? I killed Cock Robin and not with my little bow and arrow. Don’t try and find me as I’m shuffling off to Buffalo. Signed, Buck Wing
OMG i was searching for this for so long!!!!!! Didn't remember the title as i watched it when I was like 5 in the early 90s! So I just googled 'old disney cartoon bird courtroom' hahahhaha! Thank you so much for the memories
I think that was Disney's point... We see Disney poke fun at society and authority figures in some of his films (including Peter Pan and The Jungle Book). Besides, the judge, police and jury are made to look idiotic in this cartoon😁!
@@daniellevinson6975 this cartoon was not written by Disney, it was written by David Hand who worked for Disney pictures. His cartoons tend to do most of the poking
Watched this in the late 90s as a 6/7 year old child, we enjoyed it so much, I honestly don’t understand what we found funny, this is actually disturbing to watch.
I recall seeing this as a kid in the 1960s in the TV cartoons after school. It’s not really suitable for children is it, although most of it would have flown over my head. There are the celebrity references. MaeWest, of course. Maybe Cock Robin was Bing Crosby? We have Harpo Marx, maybe the Keystone Cops (although they were from the silent era). Probably a few I don’t recognise. There are a few tropes like the tough guy, the drunk, the stereotypical black man in a humble job, scared and being beaten by police. Casual police brutality is depicted as funny. It won’t be shown in the after school cartoons today.
JasonJacksonJames but they didn't make him talk like he was stupid. That's that same country/shucking and jiving accent they gave all of the "black" characters back in the day.
Oh so it's fordidden to make a character talk stupid just because he's black now ? Which means you are ok with stupid white characters ? You are a racist.
I didn't say that I was okay with stupid white characters. Don't put words in my mouth, please. I'm just pointing out that the first bird's character was the same stereotypical portrayal of black people in cartoons. Listen to the jury chorus imitate him. It sounds like a minstrel show. But hey, it's a cartoon. One of the characters is bound to be stupid or stereotypical at some point.
Years ago, I saw a cartoon from the 1930s and I can't remember what it's called. It's about this cat, or owl, playing the violin to his girlfriend in the forest. Then a dishevelled cat appears playing guitar and singing a song that makes the girlfriend dance in a provocative way. The hero grabs his girlfriend and goes somewhere else to woo her, but the cat follows them. This happens a few times, till the violin player smashes his violin on the cat's skull and the HE grabas the guitar and makes her dance in a provocative way. Anyone seen this cartoon and know what it's called?
I'm realize how Disney still makes there classic car tunes races I mean look at the birth always be eating up obviously he supposed to be back look at his hands
That was really hard to watch, with the accused birds being stereotype black, streetwise, and mentally disabled and not one accused bird being an "average Joe." But I guess it's not much different from now...
I think that was the whole point, to show how corrupted the court was back in the 1930’s and how they would accuse anyone who’s not an average joe without any evidence and just execute them.
*We don't know who is guilty, so we gonna hang them all* If that doesn't prove how dated this short is, I don't know what to tell you. It's like goddamn lynching innocents!
I really love the rhymes and characters Except for Cupid I ain't a homophobe I like gay people but it was almost too gay for me but it doesn't ruin it for me
the black bird is completely innocent and is constantly beaten, along with giving the character a stereotypical black male voice, sexism for jenny wren as all women are seen as sex objects and cupid who is depicted as gay for no other reason than for people's amusement.
yes but did you see the witness black bird was depicted as an unintelligent and clueless, stumbly black man. just because the police were also black birds, they were not stumbly and depicted as unintelligent. this is a bit naive of you to say really, the evidence is bursting at the seams
