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Our holdings consist of PUBLIC DOMAIN titles and films that remain protected through copyrights. While Public Domain footage can be licensed immediately by MacDonald & Associates, protected films must be cleared with the copyright holder before being used in a new production. Just because a motion picture is in our inventory, it does not mean that MacDonald & Associates maintains the legal right to license its use. Please contact us for the copyright status on individual titles.

Make Mine Music: two animated sequences from this Disney feature in 1945—

a) jitterbug cartoon with Benny Goodman and his orchestra and chorus perform All the Cats Join In

b) After You've Gone with the BG Quartet (Sid Weiss, Teddy Wilson, Cozy Cole) 4-24C \

Eliza Runs Again: Terrytoon animated cartoon based on Uncle Tom's Cabin—anti-black racist images of watermelons, slave auction, minstrel songs—here renamed Uncle Tom and Little Eva (1938)

The Whoopee Party: Disney musical cartoon 4-15A

Wacky World of Numbers: Shorty Rogers orchestrated the music for this color cartoon from 1970

Date with Duke: Ellington in a George Pal Puppetoons cartoon interacts with talking perfume bottles to create his Perfume Suite B&W (1947)

Mysterious Mose: Bimbo is star of this 1930 cartoon—but unheralded Betty Boop character appears and also sings—good jazz soundtrack

Begone Dull Dare: National Film Board of Canada animation mixing movement with jazz themes of Oscar Peterson Trio with animation from Norman McLaren—reddish color 1948

$21 a Day (Once a Month): Walter Lantz color cartoon about Army life—has good boogie and jazz near end of film (1941)

Liquid Jazz: an oil-and-color light show with Dixieland jazz soundtrack—color is reddish 1962 4-24C

The Tender Game: animated color short from 1958 features music of Oscar Peterson Trio and Ella Fitzgerald who sings Tenderly—from John and Faith Hubley 4-24B Adventures of an *: from John and Faith Hubley this is animated cartoon with jazz soundtrack from Benny Carter and Lionel Hampton 1957 4-24C

The Good Scout: Willie Whopper cartoon—ethnic Boy Scouts (Chinese, Jew)—Willie is a fat boy who tells story with jazzy music on soundtrack 4-24C

Scrub Me Mama [with a Boogie Beat]: racist jazz cartoon with boogie woogie musical track 4-24B

Boogie Woogie Man: Walter Lantz swing music cartoon—black ghosts 1943 B&W

4-18D Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears: Looney Tunes cartoon in Technicolor is filled with jazz and racist stereotypes—narrated by Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman (1944) 4-24B

Goin' to Heaven on a Mule: racist cartoon from 1930s 4-24B

Swing You Sinner: racist jazz cartoon from Flesicher brothers in 1930 4-24B

Jungle Jive: Walter Lantz animated cartoon with boogie piano from Bob Zerke Technicolor 1944

You're Driving Me Crazy: B&W Fleischer cartoon from 1931 has jazzy soundtrack and jungle animals singing and dancing

The Good Scout: Willie Whopper cartoon—ethnic Boy Scouts (Chinese, Jew)—Willie is a fat boy who tells story with jazzy music on soundtrack 4-24C

Mysterious Mose: Bimbo is star of this 1930 cartoon—but unheralded Betty Boop character appears and also sings—good jazz soundtrack

Make Mine Music: two animated sequences from this Disney feature in 1945—a) jitterbug cartoon with Benny Goodman and his orchestra and chorus perform All the Cats Join In; b) After You've Gone with the BG Quartet (Sid Weiss, Teddy Wilson, Cozy Cole)

Minnie the Moocher: cartoon featuring Betty Boop with Cab Calloway singing

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame: with Max Fleischer and Cab Calloway—1935

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B: Walter Lantz cartoon with racist themes—all-black Army camp but great music B&W

Sunday Go to Meetin': excellent Technicolor—racist black stereotypes going to church (1936)

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarf: Warner's Brothers racist cartoon with jazz track (12/26/42)

Jasper's in a Jam: George Pal's black character in pawn shop fantasy with music by Charlie Barnet and vocal from Peggy Lee (1947)—stop action animation 4-17C

 

Jazz Cartoons 1: All Color Films

A) Hams That Couldn't Be Cured

b) Bopin' Hood (from The New Casper the Ghost Show)

c) Rhythm in the Ranks: George Pal Puppetoon pinkish

d) Cow Cow Boogie: Meade Lux Lewis piano in Walter Lantz cartoon racist black stereotype

e) Red Hot Riding Hood: Tex Avery cartoon that inspired Jim Carrey The Mask caricature

Jazz Cartoons 2: All Color Films

a) One Note Tony

b) Bosko and the Pirates: Technicolor—Bosko is little black boy Rudolf Ising cartoon

c) Bosko in Bagdad: gross racist stereotypes

D) The Old Mill Pond: racist frogs and other pond dwellers

e) Cool Cat Blues (from The New Casper the Ghost Show)

Jazz Cartoons  3: B&W  

a) Abu Ben Boogie

b) I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You: Betty Boop with Louis Armstrong in Max Fleischer cartoon

b) Sleepy Time Down South: Screen Songs with the Bouncing Ball—sung by The Boswell Sisters

c) I Wished on the Moon: Screen Songs with the Bouncing Ball—Abe Lyman and His Californians

d) The Night Club: Aesop's Fables with low sound from 1929

e) Snow White: Betty Boop cartoon features Cab Calloway and His Orchestra in St. James Infirmary Blues

 

Jazz Cartoons  4: All B&W  

a) Boogie Woogie Sioux: Walter Lantz

b) Syncopated Sioux

c) Voodoo in Harlem: Walter Lantz

d) The Greatest Man in Asia: Walter Lantz cartoon

e) Boogie Woogie Man: Walter Lantz

f) Cave Man: Willie Whopper cartoon with music from Benny Moten and His Orchestra

Jazz Cartoons 5:  

a) Swing Wedding Color

b) Keep the Cool, Baby—Color

c) Norman McLaren Animation Excellent Color

Hoppity Hop
Dots
Loops
Boogie Doodle
(Albert Ammons)

d) Shoe Shine Jasper: black boy in George Pal Puppetoon

e) Jasper in a Jam: with Peggy Lee and Charlie Barnet

 

Jazz Cartoons  6:  

a) Bosko and the Cannibals

b) Congo Jazz: the first Bosko cartoon

c) Rhapsody in Wood: Woody Herman in George Pal Puppetoon

d) Ragtime Romeo: stars Kiko the Clown

e) Big Broadcast: George Pal Puppetoon

f) Cavalcade of Music: George Pal Puppetoon

 

Jazz Cartoons 7

a) I'm Just a Jitterbug,  Walter Lantz  B&W

b) One More Time, early 1930s—Abe Lyman and His Radio Recording Orchestra  B&W

c) Three Little Bops, three rock pigs (with hipster language)—sung by Stan Freberg--music from Shorty Rogers   faded color

d) Hot Frogs: frogs in a lagoon sing and dance to jungle music—racist stereotypes abound B&W 

 Jazz Cartoons  8:

a)Goin' to Heaven on a Mule: B&Wracist Warner Bros. cartoon from 1938 with all the black stereotypes

 

 

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