Willie Catches On
- 1962
- 25m
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Golly gee.
This film was produced by The National Film Board of Canada, and is a pretty startling commentary on racism in the early 1960s. While it tries to show that making stereotypes about jewish people, African-Americans, and other ethnic minorities is wrong, the film still manages to seem offensive and ineffective. It hasn't aged particularly well, and is now mostly good for a few laughs, like in one of the early scenes where an oriental garden comes over to say hello to baby Willy (the main character in the film), causing baby Willy to cry on the spot. I caught this on VisionTV in Canada as part of some show that goes through the NFBC archives. If you catch it, be sure to give it a watch for the sake of your own curiosity.
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- fooltank77
- Jun 25, 2003
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- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
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