LoginBlack and White (Blek end uait (Chernoe i beloe)) (2012)
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Ivan Ivanov-Vano - Blek end uait (Black and White - Noir et blanc) - 1933 (vostfr)
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A shoe shine boy makes the fatal mistake of asking the White Sugar King: "Why should white sugar be made by a black man?"
This cartoon is only 149 seconds long, it manages to pack in some of the most powerful images in the medium. The film is based on the work of Mayakovsky, voice of the Bolshevik Revolution. The soundtrack consists of the song "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," which is accompanied by graphic images of racial prejudice—beatings, lynchings, electric chair, etc.
You don't expect this sort of thing from 1932, but a Soviet propaganda cartoon has no need to pull its punches. The
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Release date: 11 February 2012
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