Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin.Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin.Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin.
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Sara Berner
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Ruby Dandridge
- Boy
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Paul Frees
- Uncle Tom
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Imogene Lynn
- Little Eva
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Will Wright
- Uncle Tom
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Heck Allen
- Harriet Beecher Stowe(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis short, along with Half-Pint Pygmy, were banned from television airings in the United States due to ethnic stereotyping of African-Americans. Despite the controversy, this short and Half-Pint Pygmy were released on The Compleat Tex Avery laserdisc in the 1990s. But they were banned once more on the Warner DVD box in 2003. Since Warner Bros proclaim that the two cartoon doesn't even exist .
- ConnectionsFeatured in Ethnic Notions (1986)
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The Conflict
The story in this concerns someone who owns everything but a small bit and the fellow, the "small guy" who owns that bit. There are three adults, all extreme caricatures. Like some cartoons, but few from this era, the thing is self-referential in illustrating the struggle. So it is mildly interesting on that score.
It is "banned" because of its pretty offensive racist stereotypes.
So if you watch this today, you could be in several different minds at once. You could see it the way it was intended, an amusement with jokes about cartooning. You could see the abstraction involved. The bad guy is a smarmy white stereotype with distinct prejudices. (I will not mention them.). The "girl" is a performing object. The "little guy" is a fat, boastful black.
You could see it as yet another drop in the ocean of oppression of an entire people. But then the unintended brilliance of the story comes into play: abstraction, exaggerated storytelling, money, class.
Whether something is worth watching has to do with the state you watch it in.
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
It is "banned" because of its pretty offensive racist stereotypes.
So if you watch this today, you could be in several different minds at once. You could see it the way it was intended, an amusement with jokes about cartooning. You could see the abstraction involved. The bad guy is a smarmy white stereotype with distinct prejudices. (I will not mention them.). The "girl" is a performing object. The "little guy" is a fat, boastful black.
You could see it as yet another drop in the ocean of oppression of an entire people. But then the unintended brilliance of the story comes into play: abstraction, exaggerated storytelling, money, class.
Whether something is worth watching has to do with the state you watch it in.
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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- tedg
- Dec 16, 2005
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- La cabaña del tío Tom
- Filming locations
- Empire State Building - 350 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA("Umpire State Building")
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime8 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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What was the official certification given to Uncle Tom's Cabaña (1947) in the United States?
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