Friday, October 23, 2009

Fresh Hare

In this 1942 cartoon, Mountie Elmer Fudd is on the trail of Bugs Bunny who's wanted dead or alive, "preferably dead". Bugs foils Elmer with tricks like the Elmer-shaped snowman. Finally Bugs lets himself be arrested. Elmer takes Bugs back to the log stockade and puts Bugs up before a Mountie firing squad. But Bugs starts singing "Dixie". The stockade becomes a field of cotton, and all the Mounties, including Elmer, turn into singing Negro minstrels!
This is the complete uncensored version.This has the full blackface minstrel-show finale, censored from TV for almost thirty years.
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The final scene is a spoof of the movie Dixie which is about a Blackfaced preformer.
Below is the trailer for Dixie. Watch for Bing Crosby in blackface!

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