One of the prohibited Warner Bros. cartoons, short course of history, pygmies, gypsies and presidents.One of the prohibited Warner Bros. cartoons, short course of history, pygmies, gypsies and presidents.One of the prohibited Warner Bros. cartoons, short course of history, pygmies, gypsies and presidents.
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Mel Blanc
- Native Chief
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Robert C. Bruce
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaA Mt. Rushmore depiction involving two extra portraits (one resembling a past president of the United States (named Franklin Roosevelt) and a certain opponent of his during a 1940 presidential election (named Wendall Wilkie))
- Alternate versionsTwo entire scenes are removed from the current version that airs on Cartoon Network. The first is a scene with an African Native, who is about to shoot a blowgun. It is revealed that he is merely aiming at a practice target. A second native comments, "Terrible shot, Joe." The other scene shows African natives pounding their drums and making signals, as the camera pans to the different villages they are communicating to. One native asks another, "Uh, what he say?" The other native says (imitating drum sound), "He say, uh, Boom di di boom di di boom boom boom boom..."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery (2004)
- SoundtracksWhen Irish Eyes Are Smiling
(uncredited)
Music by Ernest Ball
Lyrics by George Graff and Chauncey Olcott
Sung by Bill Days as the Irish Tenor
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Typical Fred Avery tomfoolery
This early Tex Avery effort, made way back when he was still calling himself Fred, already features his crazy trademarks. The whole cartoon is just a collection of crazy sight gags one after another. On this plane trip to Africa (via Ireland), airplanes fly like birds, sound like trains and dance to music. Shadows move like they have a mind of their own, Mount Rushmore get a (at the time) topical joke and even the sun and moon get in on the act. Strangely enough there are no references to W.W.II.
During a musical interlude Patrick the Irish man (who looks amazingly like the young Sean Connery in "Darby O'Gill and the Little People", 1959) does the old gag with the hair on the lens. Patrick and the first African natives we see are roto-scoped, but they soon make way for some politically incorrect stereotypes. When Fred Avery directs nobody is safe: Ostriches are portrayed as the stupid birds they really are, butterfly's are used for fart jokes and on the retour trip to America the merry go round went down. Don't worry if you did not get that last one, neither did I when I saw it.
6 out of 10
During a musical interlude Patrick the Irish man (who looks amazingly like the young Sean Connery in "Darby O'Gill and the Little People", 1959) does the old gag with the hair on the lens. Patrick and the first African natives we see are roto-scoped, but they soon make way for some politically incorrect stereotypes. When Fred Avery directs nobody is safe: Ostriches are portrayed as the stupid birds they really are, butterfly's are used for fart jokes and on the retour trip to America the merry go round went down. Don't worry if you did not get that last one, neither did I when I saw it.
6 out of 10
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- Feb 29, 2004
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