Naaa they'd probably had thought paying for a cinema or something in the future years but basically they had no idea how the future was going to be of course.
People will call this toon racist the slave owner is still the villain in this toon and it’s based off a story written by a female abolitionist. The character design was just standard stuff for the time and other Uncle Toms Cabin retellings would distort the message to be pro slavery. Not that this is faithful in any way it’s a cartoony parody but the slave owner is still clearly the villain and Uncle Tom and the little girl are clearly humans.
@@spasticpug5209 animation studies will always be plagued by regressive denialism. there is no good reason you can't acknowledge the problematic elements of the films and still, to some degree, enjoy them. no one is asking you to throw the baby out with the bath water, I wish animation aficionados would stop defending racism because you love the material. those two things are not mutually exclusive.
I thought the brief scene of the chase through the ice wagon made no sense (yeah, like anything in a "Felix the Cat" cartoon does). Then I realized it was a reference to the episode in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" when runaway slave Eliza escapes with her baby across an ice-filled river (an event of great potential drama that gets only about 1/2 a page in the book).
Bruh it’s either you’re blind or your blind BRUH THIS BULL IS F”n racist we got the slaveowner whipping the banjo we GOT THE SLAVES COOKING IN THE Kitchen they even had the audacity to make the characters BLACK BLACK NOT EVEN BROWN If your role model is LIKE BRUH ARE YOU BLIND
@@theboxerer5653 Sounds like your the racist here if your gonna be stuck in the past and not look forward to how far we've come. So let me guess you'd erase history that triggers you rather than appreciate were we came so far from. That little character just had an uncanny ability to overcome obstacles placed in his way. Shame you can't appreciate it for the simple message it stood for throughout his character history of his positive mental attitude. Taught young minds they could work through anything they faced specially when kids never saw color only problems to work through. So plainly Your the Racist here buddy🤨
@@DaA2ICE3 Soooo pointing out that something is racist is now racist? And somehow all the "progress" (lol) that """we've""" made up to this point (which really isn't much) along with the fact that racism was much more prevalent in society in the past, means that old, racist cartoons with racist depictions of slaves like this suddenly aren't racist anymore? Sounds like you're just getting defensive and lashing out because someone pointed out that an old cartoon that you like is racist...
@@dildonius Looks like your stuck in a Freudian Slip trying to read more into what's really there. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Felix was a tribute to the ability to use ones imagination and inspire kids to explore problem solving. Color n Race has nothing to do with it unless that's what YOU want to see.
What does not surprise me at all in this cartoon is that Felix the CAT plays “claw hammer style” banjo. And, of course, it’s typical that uptight guys with whips, who wear suits and boots to bed, and like to beat up cats, are the kind who are going to intensely dislike the banjo. But Felix knows where it’s at. Banjos rock.
Yes But its still racist, propaganda, i thought history in school and the Old. Books told the real truth about Slaves from Africa, they were POW from Waring tribes, sold to the Dutch traders off the Gold Coast of Africa, and brought here to The New World. You will never find that in today's history Books. And The rightful Owners of this Nation Are The Native Indians, Who were Exterminated, in lieu of Slavery
It's nice seeing a cartoon of this age that isn't horrifically racist. Felix joining in on the fun and trying to help out was rather sweet. Yes, the cartoon is still racist, but it could've been so much worse.
Released on November 13, 1927 as a silent cartoon via Educational Pictures. The silent version would likely have had intertitles containing dialogue and other descriptions. The version seen here is the 1929 sound reissue released by Copley Pictures, to cash in on the year's talkie craze. For this version, the intertitles were removed and sound was post-synced to the picture. This is why visuals and the soundtrack don't always match up. Personally, I'm interested in seeing what the silent version looked like. Maybe that version could better explain the purpose of the snow monster at 0:19. It took me a few minutes to realize that was supposed to be Old Man Winter walking in the North. Such a connection might have been clearer in the silent version, since the intertitles would have likely explained it.
@@moviefiend44 Probably. It could have narration mentioning "Old Man Winter" has came down from the north while the Sun in the south compels Felix to come down to its warmth.
@@moviefiend44 sadly theres only one original print of a copley re-issue available online, and thats switches witches. i would LOVE if an educational pictures print of futuritzy showed up online..
Funny I was born in 1949 and I remember watching these cartoons on TV. As I was watching this I thought why was I interested in this is a kid?I figured out as you watcher you weren't sure exactly what was going to happen to get them out of trouble because all of those little inventions that the Whip made and that Felix made to get out of trouble made you think! You weren't just entertained!!!
@@ryles5874 when I was in first grade I went to my aunt's house after school every day and she had a TV that was tall but the TV screen was probably only at the most 18in by 18in and that's what we watched The Mickey Mouse Club on after school. All TV was black and white and there were all these tubes in the back of the TV and sometimes one would blow a burnout I think you have to have the TV repairman come and he'd have to figure out which of all these 30 bulbs like light bulbs in the back was burned out go to his truck and Route Around for the right one and come back for the TV to work!
Just a interesting fact, since this cartoon was released in 1920s, there's a very high chance that many former slaves watched this movie, since slavery in US was abolished about 60 years prior to this movie.
Those moves are called "chucking and jiving". Felix was my favorite cartoon. Watched in the morning eating corn pops cereal before going to First Grade classes.
@@chado3000 do guys remember Woody Woodpecker, Casper The Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey, Richie Rich, Little Lulu, Little Audrey, Hot Stuff, Beetle Baily, and how about Dogpatch USA with Snuffy Smith and Lil' Abner? I lived for Saturday morning cartoons because those tiny cereal boxes (after cutting along the lines) turned into cereal bowls!😁👍
I love old cartoons as well, though people seem surprised that I do, because Im so young. They say that the older generations are the only ones that understand these cartoons, but I enjoy them a lot too. I always watched the old fashioned Mickey Mouse cartoons, Felix the Cat, and Popeye. They were My childhood, even though technically I'm still a child...
@@amenaabdallah7035 I don't know if she is, but you certainly are. It's spelled FIELD. And slavery was worldwide, every race, age, sex, and color of people have been affected by slavery in early civilization, Europeans too. Get over it. Let's not forget to mention that Felix was the protagonist in this picture who actually helped the slave and fought the slave owner. Very progressive cartoon for the 20's in my opinion, but you're too dense to even see that.
Those pioneering cartoonist were geniuses, despite perpetuating offensive racial characterizations. One thing I agree with them about is that if we’re going to make our world a better place for EVERYONE, we need MORE BANJO.
The comments saying how it’s racist because of it’s depiction of black people. This was the 1920’s!!! They wouldn’t get away with depicting of black people now.
And 2 think all these years black ppl r still playing their music 2 loud and now white ppl just call the cop's lol...if anything else at least the animation was good 4 tht time period and revealed how fresh the racial wounds were and tht the creators of these cartoon's still had discrimination in their hearts...nevertheless these r still classics and a time capsule of tht era and shows tht there has been significant progress on racial relations to the point where ppl of all races r confused trying to imitate something their not...its sad...~Yours truly: Some random White Guy~
To think, Felix retooling a banjo out of a frying pan and his own whiskers inadvertently pointed the way towards the rock and roll movement some 3 decades later. A young cat listening to a black bluesman in the early days eventually paying it foward through his own version of rocking and rolling music (wink, wink!) 🤔🇵🇷🇺🇸🗽🦂📽😎
@@lucille.4744 it is showing a open depiction of a not too removed time from its air date, and showing that actions which were accepted as common were not accepted as respectable actions you mean? 1920 is a scant 50 years removed from open slavery and is over 30 years before ending segregation. so given its time frame and culture it is a considerable step forward in actuality. one can not judge the past based on the present, and much look at how things were with acceptance to move forward.
It's a super-fast banjo bass for the song "Feeling No Pain," which was first recorded the same year that this cartoon was released (1927). Check out the version by Red Nichols on UA-cam and play it three or four times faster. You will hear the banjo in the background playing what you hear in the cartoon.
Take into consideration the time period in which this was created. This was the unfortunate norm to stereotype African Americans this way. But this toon does have a positive message. Felix hopped right in and joined in the fun. There was acceptance all around. Felix showed courage in defense of his new friends. The dude with the whip was obviously the villain of the story.
The depiction of the black characters? . . . Yeah, kinda racist. . . But Felix pumbling a slave owner in the face with rocks? . . . That's pretty badass progressiveness for 1919. Imagine . . . Real life slave owners were alive when this cartoon was screen in theaters.
It is so great to see analytical people in the comments discussing the obvious things about this cartoon, racism and the historical setting in relation to it. However we then have the racist fueled stupidity of others in this comment section demanding that they shut up for speaking about the obvious history of the cartoon and comparing it to today. Just so you know, it has not changed very much. Still we have those keeping racism alive, still we have those who have been bathed with such ignorance that they do not even realize the wrongness in this cartoon as they have been conditioned not to. Just an FYI, this cartoon was just as much of a problem then as it is now and was complained about too. Slavery and Racism are certainly the most vital genes in the DNA of this country and the single most important event that we have ever been through here. And yet here we are still being condemned for even speaking of it.
@@huntergray3985 what the hell is pro-racism? I am not having this discussion with somebody who wants to make themselves out to be a fool. Why would you think so low of yourself? I do not need to explain the racism in the cartoon because you see it, and I see it. Only one of us, yet, decides to act ignorant and pretend that it is not there, gaslight those effected by it into also believing that its not. Good evening to you.
@@grammaticalchainsaw7318 So, the only white person represented in the film is the villain - is that the racism you are talking about? Or are you claiming that black people do not like making music and dancing? Every time I turn my TV on I see black people singing and dancing. Are you claiming that many black women are not large, or even obese ? If so I think that statistics might not agree with you. Are you saying that cartoons should always present black people in a way that does not caricature them, when all other people are caricatured? Or are you in fact saying that that I must agree with you or I'm a racist, and with that you will not argue your point because you... What? Have no argument?
George Floyd was killed by the police two years ago. But some keyboard warriors wanna go on about a 100 year old cartoon ? The villain in this was the guy with the whip. What's changed ?
Good old Felix The Cat they don't make anything like that thease Sad Day's, the Trash that don't even come close to A cartoon Nowadays, It's nowonder kids are screwed up.
I wonder if the creators of this ever could have imagined that 100 years later we'd be watching this in the palm of our hands.
Probably.
Naaa they'd probably had thought paying for a cinema or something in the future years but basically they had no idea how the future was going to be of course.
People probably going up in smoke saying its racist nowadays lol
You might...personally, I think it's funny and doesn't offend me in the least.
why? this is perfectly ok
I love the way Felix dances. For 1927 the animation is so spot on
It looks like a precursor to the way Charlie Brown and friends dance in Peanuts
I never realized how old Felix was. Wow. Me and my sister watched him in the 60's. We LOVED Felix ♥️😍
Happy 100th Birthday Felix
102nd
He's been dead for 100 years too
Hey I love your profile picture
To celebrate Felix his 100th birthday you picked the most racist Felix cartoon
He's Becoming A Creepypasta
People will call this toon racist the slave owner is still the villain in this toon and it’s based off a story written by a female abolitionist.
The character design was just standard stuff for the time and other Uncle Toms Cabin retellings would distort the message to be pro slavery.
Not that this is faithful in any way it’s a cartoony parody but the slave owner is still clearly the villain and Uncle Tom and the little girl are clearly humans.
The art style is still incredibly racist regardless of the time. It’s really not that hard to depict someone as a human
@@kevinmccabe3984 a caricature of a person can still be perceived as human
In no way is this cartoon any sort of propaganda
@@spasticpug5209 animation studies will always be plagued by regressive denialism. there is no good reason you can't acknowledge the problematic elements of the films and still, to some degree, enjoy them. no one is asking you to throw the baby out with the bath water, I wish animation aficionados would stop defending racism because you love the material. those two things are not mutually exclusive.
@@kevinmccabe3984 race is fake
@@elliottrobbins1419 race is fake
Make a banjo out of a frying pan and whiskers. 1920s cartoons had the best logic
And then using it as a unicycle and then a slingshot and then a bat of some sort.
@@ALItm1 I think the"bat" was a tennis racket.
Creates a living dog out of a whip
All over the place logic, but it's still funny
Yeah, they're great aren't they?!?
I thought the brief scene of the chase through the ice wagon made no sense (yeah, like anything in a "Felix the Cat" cartoon does). Then I realized it was a reference to the episode in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" when runaway slave Eliza escapes with her baby across an ice-filled river (an event of great potential drama that gets only about 1/2 a page in the book).
Harriet B. Stowe. He house is spdown the street from me. Right next door to Mark Twains. Both amazing.
I love how felix is defending the black, WE LOVE YOU FELIXXX
History is definitive and comedic ..I just really appreciate keeping these viewable to society. Thank you 😊
As a kid felix inspired me to use my imagination to solve problems. He in his own way was a great role model.
Bruh it’s either you’re blind or your blind BRUH THIS BULL IS F”n racist we got the slaveowner whipping the banjo we GOT THE SLAVES COOKING IN THE Kitchen they even had the audacity to make the characters BLACK BLACK NOT EVEN BROWN If your role model is LIKE BRUH ARE YOU BLIND
@@theboxerer5653 Sounds like your the racist here if your gonna be stuck in the past and not look forward to how far we've come. So let me guess you'd erase history that triggers you rather than appreciate were we came so far from. That little character just had an uncanny ability to overcome obstacles placed in his way. Shame you can't appreciate it for the simple message it stood for throughout his character history of his positive mental attitude. Taught young minds they could work through anything they faced specially when kids never saw color only problems to work through. So plainly Your the Racist here buddy🤨
@@DaA2ICE3 Soooo pointing out that something is racist is now racist? And somehow all the "progress" (lol) that """we've""" made up to this point (which really isn't much) along with the fact that racism was much more prevalent in society in the past, means that old, racist cartoons with racist depictions of slaves like this suddenly aren't racist anymore?
Sounds like you're just getting defensive and lashing out because someone pointed out that an old cartoon that you like is racist...
@@dildonius Looks like your stuck in a Freudian Slip trying to read more into what's really there. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Felix was a tribute to the ability to use ones imagination and inspire kids to explore problem solving. Color n Race has nothing to do with it unless that's what YOU want to see.
@@theboxerer5653 Felix is black too so relax.
I used to love Felix the cat cartoons so much when I was a little boy
this is my first time enjoying these cartoons.
This is one of his older toons, before his bag of tricks.
Same tricks though.
What does not surprise me at all in this cartoon is that Felix the CAT plays “claw hammer style” banjo. And, of course, it’s typical that uptight guys with whips, who wear suits and boots to bed, and like to beat up cats, are the kind who are going to intensely dislike the banjo. But Felix knows where it’s at. Banjos rock.
Made a hundred years ago, and still better than the trash they put out on Nickelodeon today
Yes But its still racist, propaganda, i thought history in school and the Old. Books told the real truth about Slaves from Africa, they were POW from Waring tribes, sold to the Dutch traders off the Gold Coast of Africa, and brought here to The New World. You will never find that in today's history Books. And The rightful Owners of this Nation Are The Native Indians, Who were Exterminated, in lieu of Slavery
Funnier, too.
I have to admit this cartoon is pretty stupid.
@@itsgreat7150not every cartoon has to be the next most intelligent thing to be good.
I've seen Nickelodeon, and I think I have to agree with you.
I love the art in these old toons
Man got out of bed fully dressed with whip in had. Employee of the month right there.
i love the fluidity of the impossible.
It's nice seeing a cartoon of this age that isn't horrifically racist.
Felix joining in on the fun and trying to help out was rather sweet.
Yes, the cartoon is still racist, but it could've been so much worse.
How is it racist
@@DjordjeJelic1611
i think it’s the stereotype and blackface caricature
Well duh! This isn't JUST a cartoon without out it's heavy racism
@@maude. who cares bro racism is funny
@@DjordjeJelic1611are you being sarcastic?
Wow, I thought Felix was around since the 50s. I never knew he was around in 1920!
November 13, 1927, according to Wiki.
Released on November 13, 1927 as a silent cartoon via Educational Pictures. The silent version would likely have had intertitles containing dialogue and other descriptions.
The version seen here is the 1929 sound reissue released by Copley Pictures, to cash in on the year's talkie craze. For this version, the intertitles were removed and sound was post-synced to the picture. This is why visuals and the soundtrack don't always match up.
Personally, I'm interested in seeing what the silent version looked like. Maybe that version could better explain the purpose of the snow monster at 0:19. It took me a few minutes to realize that was supposed to be Old Man Winter walking in the North. Such a connection might have been clearer in the silent version, since the intertitles would have likely explained it.
@@moviefiend44 Probably. It could have narration mentioning "Old Man Winter" has came down from the north while the Sun in the south compels Felix to come down to its warmth.
Oswald was release in that year
@@moviefiend44 sadly theres only one original print of a copley re-issue available online, and thats switches witches. i would LOVE if an educational pictures print of futuritzy showed up online..
Funny I was born in 1949 and I remember watching these cartoons on TV. As I was watching this I thought why was I interested in this is a kid?I figured out as you watcher you weren't sure exactly what was going to happen to get them out of trouble because all of those little inventions that the Whip made and that Felix made to get out of trouble made you think! You weren't just entertained!!!
bro you are 71 ?
@@albinoobama3988 i will be in a few months
That’s really cool! I’ve always wondered what it was like in those days!
@@ryles5874 when I was in first grade I went to my aunt's house after school every day and she had a TV that was tall but the TV screen was probably only at the most 18in by 18in and that's what we watched The Mickey Mouse Club on after school. All TV was black and white and there were all these tubes in the back of the TV and sometimes one would blow a burnout I think you have to have the TV repairman come and he'd have to figure out which of all these 30 bulbs like light bulbs in the back was burned out go to his truck and Route Around for the right one and come back for the TV to work!
The chances are you saw a 1950s revival of the character and not the original cartoons. Wikipedia talks about it.
This is now a century old.
it's not tho
Not yet far as this short goes, but Felix himself is over 100 years old.
Just a interesting fact, since this cartoon was released in 1920s, there's a very high chance that many former slaves watched this movie, since slavery in US was abolished about 60 years prior to this movie.
I love cat cartoons!
me too, i love tom n jerry a lot
We have a black cat named Felix
White Castle?
Too high for me
Thatz cute
Nobody again me -cartoon cat?!
We did too! 😻😻
Those moves are called "chucking and jiving". Felix was my favorite cartoon. Watched in the morning eating corn pops cereal before going to First Grade classes.
I believe they were called Sugar Pops back then. I used to eat them too.
As in 'chunk n jivin, then you wheel you gotta'?! I thought they were saying 'jump drive and, then you wheel you gotta' lol
You're holding up better than I am if you can remember all this. I remember felix, mr magoo, rocky and bullwinkle, and some pretty old popeye..
@@chado3000 do guys remember Woody Woodpecker, Casper The Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey, Richie Rich, Little Lulu, Little Audrey, Hot Stuff, Beetle Baily, and how about Dogpatch USA with Snuffy Smith and Lil' Abner? I lived for Saturday morning cartoons because those tiny cereal boxes (after cutting along the lines) turned into cereal bowls!😁👍
The term was "shuckin' and jivin' " lol. I had never heard those words until i started watching Baretta and Starsky and Hutch.😂😂😂
I love old cartoons 😊
It’s sad it portrays slavery tho but it’s nice that the protagonist is on their side tho
I love old cartoons as well, though people seem surprised that I do, because Im so young. They say that the older generations are the only ones that understand these cartoons, but I enjoy them a lot too. I always watched the old fashioned Mickey Mouse cartoons, Felix the Cat, and Popeye. They were My childhood, even though technically I'm still a child...
Bro this was made in 1927 and there are black people in a cotten filed are you dumb
@@amenaabdallah7035 I don't know if she is, but you certainly are. It's spelled FIELD. And slavery was worldwide, every race, age, sex, and color of people have been affected by slavery in early civilization, Europeans too. Get over it. Let's not forget to mention that Felix was the protagonist in this picture who actually helped the slave and fought the slave owner. Very progressive cartoon for the 20's in my opinion, but you're too dense to even see that.
Rock Tekhne are u acc telling me to get over the fact that my people for over 100 years were beaten and inslaved
That kid's hairdo can be seen lots of places in the USA in 2021. The concept art is weird and abstract. I like it.
It’s an African girl hairstyle from west Africa and brought to America via slavery
Felix was the original MacGyver.
Those pioneering cartoonist were geniuses, despite perpetuating offensive racial characterizations. One thing I agree with them about is that if we’re going to make our world a better place for EVERYONE, we need MORE BANJO.
Cat had his own TV show in the 50's.
Mick Jelsma and 90’s
@@luc1xx0 Cat get around!
And an anime in the 2000s
Enjoyed ,thank you
These cartoons are really well done ... I love 'em 👍
Animation has come a long way since the 20’s.
Back when cartoons had imagination, no pc lectures.
Thx for posting, was mesmerized.
Why are you so racist?
@@dodapictures2141 lol
Yeah, this cartoon is about as dumb as comment.
Please tell me what cartoons have pc lectures in it?
My grandfather was one at this time now he’s would be about 100
And to think they used that same animation process for 70 years until the dawn of computer animation.
Fascinating glimpse of the times.
Surprised this one has never been pulled.
Happy 100th Felix!
if this is historically accurate it kinda explains the evolution of subwoofer bass in vehicles driving through the neighborhood
I miss the good ol days
The comments saying how it’s racist because of it’s depiction of black people. This was the 1920’s!!! They wouldn’t get away with depicting of black people now.
And 2 think all these years black ppl r still playing their music 2 loud and now white ppl just call the cop's lol...if anything else at least the animation was good 4 tht time period and revealed how fresh the racial wounds were and tht the creators of these cartoon's still had discrimination in their hearts...nevertheless these r still classics and a time capsule of tht era and shows tht there has been significant progress on racial relations to the point where ppl of all races r confused trying to imitate something their not...its sad...~Yours truly: Some random White Guy~
Beautiful cartoon
Those fellas are still makin a hell of a racket
To think, Felix retooling a banjo out of a frying pan and his own whiskers inadvertently pointed the way towards the rock and roll movement some 3 decades later. A young cat listening to a black bluesman in the early days eventually paying it foward through his own version of rocking and rolling music (wink, wink!) 🤔🇵🇷🇺🇸🗽🦂📽😎
Happy 100th birthday Felix.
Why is there an angry abominable snowman at the beginning?
Thats wholesome, felix helping the slave guy out despite when this was made.
Very educational cartoon
2:46-2:50 This scene has so many bad connotations it's disturbing, god!
Awesome MTV lollapaloza
Yo, Felix and that slave owner are broken af.
So awesome 😂😂
Тут негры изображены карикатурно, но они добрые
Blacks could always dance .
white men can't jump.
I got a video out of this
Thanks Britain
awesome cartoon
Does that guy sleep with a whip in his bed?
... don’t you?
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
There is a reason we don’t see cartoons like this today. A very good reason
Agree!!
Why? They are funny yet simple.
@@GD-jc3wx Do you even know what this is saying/showing?
@@lucille.4744 it is showing a open depiction of a not too removed time from its air date, and showing that actions which were accepted as common were not accepted as respectable actions you mean? 1920 is a scant 50 years removed from open slavery and is over 30 years before ending segregation. so given its time frame and culture it is a considerable step forward in actuality. one can not judge the past based on the present, and much look at how things were with acceptance to move forward.
@@lucille.4744 so?
Achei o final fraco ele poderia ter aprendido ao usar o chicote contra o inverno.
What's the name of the intro music?
"Swanee River"
Malfattio Thank you!
"Old Folks at Home", by Stephen Foster, 1851.
Suwanee River is the very first. Stephen Foster. Listen to the Mockingbird is another of the first songs.
Do you know you can play way down upon the Swanee River on the Black Keys on the piano
Educational.
how is it educational
whoa.
This cartoon started the Montgomery Brawl
how
Whats the banjo song called?
It's a super-fast banjo bass for the song "Feeling No Pain," which was first recorded the same year that this cartoon was released (1927). Check out the version by Red Nichols on UA-cam and play it three or four times faster. You will hear the banjo in the background playing what you hear in the cartoon.
@@shmuleyloew9149 Thank you for the information!!
Nostalgia Cartoons
I'm surprised UA-cam in their wokeness allows this. Usually, black-face gets a lot complaints.
@hitler did noting worong Yeah. The banjo player not allowed to defend himself so somebody who "knows" he's being treated badly has to do it for him.
As it should get
@hitler did noting worong no its not at all thank you.
Take into consideration the time period in which this was created. This was the unfortunate norm to stereotype African Americans this way.
But this toon does have a positive message.
Felix hopped right in and joined in the fun. There was acceptance all around.
Felix showed courage in defense of his new friends.
The dude with the whip was obviously the villain of the story.
It's not black face if they are black.
The depiction of the black characters? . . . Yeah, kinda racist. . . But Felix pumbling a slave owner in the face with rocks? . . . That's pretty badass progressiveness for 1919.
Imagine . . . Real life slave owners were alive when this cartoon was screen in theaters.
That's not progressiveness. It's called moral law. Being racist is intrinsically bad whereas being trans also is.
Everybody has rights
Not 100% sure if this is racist but it was laugh out loud funny at moments.
Woooow
My life feels threatened.
Are you ok????
3:22 this Vocie funny
I think the reason why they added the blackface because they were easier to see the mouth expressions.
1:26 N
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Love this..
Today, this would cause roots..
Good example of how we've improved as a society
No offense but I'm pretty sure your statement is false
@@autisticpain1960 it isn't.
no it definitely is
@@NoMoreWhat-Ifs no it definitely isn't
@@youdontseeanoldmanhavinatw4904 you'll learn someday
Aunt Jemima, lawsee!!!
Amazing
It is so great to see analytical people in the comments discussing the obvious things about this cartoon, racism and the historical setting in relation to it. However we then have the racist fueled stupidity of others in this comment section demanding that they shut up for speaking about the obvious history of the cartoon and comparing it to today. Just so you know, it has not changed very much. Still we have those keeping racism alive, still we have those who have been bathed with such ignorance that they do not even realize the wrongness in this cartoon as they have been conditioned not to. Just an FYI, this cartoon was just as much of a problem then as it is now and was complained about too. Slavery and Racism are certainly the most vital genes in the DNA of this country and the single most important event that we have ever been through here. And yet here we are still being condemned for even speaking of it.
Surely you are not trying to claim that this cartoon is pro-racism?
@@huntergray3985 what the hell is pro-racism? I am not having this discussion with somebody who wants to make themselves out to be a fool. Why would you think so low of yourself? I do not need to explain the racism in the cartoon because you see it, and I see it. Only one of us, yet, decides to act ignorant and pretend that it is not there, gaslight those effected by it into also believing that its not. Good evening to you.
@@grammaticalchainsaw7318 So, the only white person represented in the film is the villain - is that the racism you are talking about? Or are you claiming that black people do not like making music and dancing? Every time I turn my TV on I see black people singing and dancing. Are you claiming that many black women are not large, or even obese ? If so I think that statistics might not agree with you. Are you saying that cartoons should always present black people in a way that does not caricature them, when all other people are caricatured? Or are you in fact saying that that I must agree with you or I'm a racist, and with that you will not argue your point because you... What? Have no argument?
@@huntergray3985 bro what
This was a painfully stupid response.
What with the sound?
This was a 1927 silent cartoon. Jacques Kopfstein was hired by Pat Sullivan to add sound and music in 1929.
Luffy vs Kaido
Only a true villain sleeps in his boots and hat ready to do mischief at the drop of a banjo beat.
Funny
Americans crying about caricatures looking like caricatures xDDD
Я одного не понял, почему девочка и мужик играющий на балалайке чёрные.
It's a banjo! And the cartoon is based on a actual story, written by a female abolicionist at that time (~1927)
WHY SLAVERY, HE MADE A HAMDMADE BANJO, GOT CHASE DOWN BY SLAVE GUARD, END STORY.
The fact this cartoon is racist and anti racist at the same time
It's not really racist
1:48
George Floyd was killed by the police two years ago.
But some keyboard warriors wanna go on about a 100 year old cartoon ?
The villain in this was the guy with the whip.
What's changed ?
Good old Felix The Cat they don't make anything like that thease Sad Day's, the Trash that don't even come close to A cartoon Nowadays, It's nowonder kids are screwed up.
Black people are a different breed in these cartoons i swear
Felix thought not.
oooooh
I thought that one was Beyoncé...
What the What?!
Black people invented the banjo!
Poor guy just wanted to sleep