CAP’N CUB (1943)
The cartoon starts out cute, but soon turns very politically incorrect by post-war standards. Cute little Cap’n Cub reviews a weapons parade, but wants more “planes, planes, planes!”. A full production sequence follows, and the completed planes go off to fight the Japanese, and goes from cute to dark very quickly with defamatory anti-Japanese caricatures that dominate this period in US history. Yes there are some outrageous stereotypes — the Japanese are portrayed as monkeys — highly insulting to them — and their dreaded Mitsubishi Zeros are bloated, haywire contraptions that fall to pieces.monkeys — highly insulting to them — and their dreaded Mitsubishi Zeros are bloated, haywire contraptions that fall to pieces.
16mm Kodak black and white/sound cartoon on 1x400 foot reel (full).
Offical Films release.
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