After showing Bad Bugs Bunny in thirty cities in Europe in 1995 it showed in Australia and Great Britain.  I was still getting requests for it in 1999 and showed it in two cities in Europe including  Gothenburg where it drew a crowd of eight hundred people.  It is comprised of ten suppressed cartoons that  show the true history of America:  Sex, Violence and Racism! None of these cartoons has been issued on commercial video tape in their complete, uncensored form. The first big attempt to rewrite the past and censor cartoons was in 1968.  Eleven Warner Brothers cartoons were selected to never be shown again.  Three of those cartoons are in this program in their complete, original form.   I use Bugs Bunny as the icon for the greater output of Warner Brothers animation.  Bugs Bunny does not appear in every cartoon.  I have tried to make this an equal opportunity offensive program with cartoons insulting as many ethnic groups and sensibilities as possible.  The lawyers for Warner Brothers have tried to stop me from showing this program.  This is not the complete program but these are all copywrite free and in the public domain.

 

Hare Ribbin  (Bob Clampett 1946)  This is the original version of this cartoon with the homicide ending that was changed to suicide  a month or so after it came out.  See Bugs commit violent murder.

 

He Was Her Man  (Friz Freleng  1937)   A long suppressed cartoon due to it's extreme violence toward women.

 

Sioux Me (Ben Hardaway, 1939)  Native American stereotypes galore. The rainmaker must produce rain or the chief will slit his throat. 

Let It Be Me  (Friz Freleng, 1936) Caricature of Bing Crosby as a woman abusing cad. He successfully sued Warner?s to stop the showing of this cartoon. 

Ali Baba Bound  (Bob Clampett, 1940)  Porky Pig battles stereotyped Arabs.  This includes a tasteless joke about  a suicide bomber.

All This And Rabbit Stew (1943) One of the original censored 11.  Bugs Bunny and a Step N Fetchit type black man. In the 1950's this cartoon was remade using all of the cells except for the black man. Elmer Fudd replaced him.

 

Historic puppet and stop motion animation from around the world.  The two great masters of Puppet animation are featured:  Wladyslaw Starewicz and George Pal.  The films are from 1909 to 1949.  The development of puppet animation can be seen. 

 

The Automatic Moving Company  (Emile Cohl, France, 1909)  Emile Cohl was the first animator.  This is a great example of stop motion animation.  A moving company arrives with no driver at an apartment.  All of the boxes and furniture get out of the truck, unpack, assemble in the room, sweep up and leave, with no human beings to help. 

 

The Revenge of the Kinomograph Kameraman (1912, Wladyslaw Starewicz, Russia)  A truly amazing puppet animation tale using insects to tell a tale of lust, betrayal, violence and redemption.  Many modern animators have copied the work of Starewicz including Tim Burton,  Jan Svankmajer, The Quay Brothers, and creators of Toy Story. 

 

 La Voix du rossignol aka The Voice of the Nightingale (1922, Wladyslaw Starewicz, France) Starewicz was forced to flee Russia during the revolution.  He settled in France where he lived and worked for the rest of his life.  This is a beautiful rendition of the famous folk tale in beautiful "Prizma Colour."

 

It's A Bird  (1930, Charlie Bowers, USA)  Charlie Bowers was one of the first and best masters of stop motion puppet animation. He worked as early as in 1916 and trained many others in the art of animation.  This live action and animated short features what he called "The Bowers Process."  It has to be seen to be believed. Mr. Bowers was born in 1889 and died in 1946.  An added bonus of It's a Bird is that he acts in it in the main role (not the bird, he is Charley Chucklehead).

 

Phillips Broadcast of 1938 (1938, George Pal, Einhoven Holland)  George Pal was born in 1908 in Cegled Hungary. George Pal and his wife traveled around Europe in the early thirties one step ahead of the Gestapo.  He established his "Dollywood" studio in Holland in the mid thirties and moved to America in 1939.  This is a fabulous cartoon.

 

Jack and the Beanstalk (1955, Lotte Reiniger,  Berlin)  Lotte Reiniger worked in the exacting medium of silhouette animation.  She was born in Berlin in 1899 and began creating her beautiful creations in 1919.  She continued to work through 1975 and died in 1981. 

 

Alice in Wonderland  (1950, Lou Bunin, England)  Lou Bunin was born in 1904 and began working with puppets in the thirties.  He produced a feature length live action and puppet version of Alice in Wonderland in 1950.  This is ten minute condensed version of the feature which features the actress Joan Marsh and some marvelous puppets. 

 

Hot Lips Jasper (1945,  George Pal, USA)  Another example of the fabulous artistry of George Pal.  He created a series of cartoons featuring the black character Jasper.  This one has Louis Armstrong losing his trumpet, which Jasper finds.  George Pal is now mostly remembered for his feature length movies Tom Thumb, The Time Machine, and the Seven Faces of of Dr. Lao which he made in the fifties and sixties after stopping his short film productions. 

 

Gumby Racer  (1957, Art Clokey, USA)  This is the favorite of all my Gumby cartoons.  The race in this is much better than the race in Star Wars - Phantom Menace.