Swing Social (1940) User Reviews

Swing Social is entertaining if a little politically incorrect

[tavm · 6/10 · 7 June 2007]

In this politically incorrect cartoon from 1940, a black preacher on Sunday has caught a black fisherman not going to church. He then tells of why black fish don't bite on the sabbath as we are treated to a musical sequence of Negro fish singing about the devil and what he represents and how to defeat him. I suppose one should be relieved that the human black characters are only seen from the neck down though there's still some of the mangled English dialect to deal with. The music is for the most part entertaining and mostly avoids stereotyping (brief fried chicken sequence notwithstanding). Certainly worth seeing for anyone who loves swing music and loves all '30s and '40s animation styles. Directed by Rudolf Ising who previously created Bosko with Hugh Harmon.