Thursday, 24 September 2015

Racist toons

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid (1929)

Directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising this film mixes live action and animation. An animator creates a new character who can interact with him and break the 4th wall.

For such an early film there are some pretty cool innovations in terms of the interaction between human and animation. Unfortunately the film shows it's age as the animated character is clearly a racial stereotype which leaves a bad taste in the mouth. An interesting milestone in the path of animated film certainly but not much more than that.


2/5

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