Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies by Jerry Beck

They did all the voices for that cartoon, even though Mel Blanc's contract with Warners gave him sole voice credit for all Warners cartoons by then. So we sat down together and came up with a parody of Disney's Snow White and ' Coal Black' was the result. They asked me why there weren't any Warner's cartoons with black characters and I didn't have any good answer for that question. ' In 1942, during the height of anti-Japanese sentiment during World War II, I was approached in Hollywood by the cast of an all-black musical off-broadway production called Jump For Joy while they were doing some special performances in Los Angeles. Author Michelle Klein-Hass wrote the following: The former is a jazz-based parody of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, while the latter is a hot jazz re-interpretation of Clampett's now-classic 1938 short Porky in Wackyland. Two of the Censored Eleven directed by Bob Clampett have been defended by some film historians: ' Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs' and ' Tin Pan Alley Cats'. However, racial themes are so prominent in these eleven cartoons that United Artists believed that no amount of selective editing could ever make them acceptable for distribution.

One classic cartoon gag, most prominent in MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons, is the transformation of characters into a blackface caricature after an explosion or an automobile backfire. Many cartoons from previous decades are routinely censored, cutting racist jokes, graphic violence, or scenes of smoking, drinking alcohol, or suicide.

' Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears' (1944, Freleng).

' Angel Puss' (1944, Charles M./ Chuck Jones).

' Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs' (1943, Robert/ Bob Clampett).

' All This and Rabbit Stew' (1941, Avery).

' The Isle of Pingo Pongo' (1938, Avery).

' Uncle Tom's Bungalow' (1937, Fred/ Tex Avery).

' Sunday Go to Meetin' Time' (1936, Isadore/ Friz Freleng).' Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land' (1931, directed by Rudolf Ising).The cartoons featured in the Censored Eleven are:

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies by Jerry Beck