Westward Whoa (1936)
1936 · Animation · 7 min · dir. Jack King
- Animation
- Comedy
- Western
Synopsis
Porky Pig and his friends Beans, Little Kitty and Ham and Ex, travel as pioneers toward the western frontier. As their wagon travels across the prairie, Ham and Ex cause trouble by pretending to be Indians. Then the real Indians show up!
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Jack King
- Writer
- George Manuell
- Released
- 1936-04-24
- Running time
- 7 minutes
Cast & crew
Jack King Director- Count Cutelli
Joe Dougherty
Bernice Hansen
Tommy Bond
Reviews on the Internet Archive
unthinking views expressed through humor · Gov Bud Hudnut · 2023-05-21
The blatantly racist caricature of "Indians" is typical of studio animation from that era. These entertainments taught Americans a particular view of their history in comic form, which must strike today's viewers as embarrassing, even maliciously false. But to attempt to suppress such works because they conflict with our own sensibilities is to abandon a valuable opportunity to understand that history in all of its complex and contradictory elements. Even if you merely want to repudiate the attitudes informing such material, you've got to encounter the evidence first hand and not through a…
