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Tex Avery : The Isle of Pingo Pongo (1938)

The Isle of Pingo Pongo is a 1938 Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery. Because of the racial stereotypes used against black people throughout the short, United Artists chose to withhold it from syndication within the United States in 1968. As such, the short was placed into the so-called Censored Eleven, a group of eleven Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts withheld from television distribution in the United States since 1968 due to heavy stereotyping of black people. Plot : The short follows a cruise ship on a trip from New York to the island, presumably located in the South Seas. The ship sails past the Statue of Liberty, who acts as a traffic cop, past the "Canary Islands" and "Sandwich Islands". The cartoon revolves around themes of jazz and primitivism and is set on a remote island. The central character is Elmer Fudd in his Debut, and most of the cartoon consists of travelogue-type narration and blackout gags, including Elmer. Pingo-Pongo inhabitants are mostly tall, black, and have big feet and lips. Like other cartoons of the era, the native inhabitants resemble animals and reflect stereotypes of the time. The natives are at first playing drums, then breaking into a jazz beat, still described as a "primitive savage rhythm", which leads the audience to connect the savage jungle to modern jazz music. There is a running gag with Elmer where he says, "Now, Boss?" but the narrator keeps saying, "Not now". That is, until the end, the sun fails to set when he says, "as the sun sinks slowly into the West." Elmer reappears and says, "Now, Boss?" The boss says, "Yeah, now!" Elmer shoots the sun, making it sink into the West and ending the film.