Review of Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

This is a notorious Looney Tunes cartoon from celebrated exponent Robert Clampett, one of a handful of 'outrageous' efforts from The Golden Age Of Animation which were subsequently banned. Of course, as can be gleaned immediately from its altered title, it's a modernized all-black retelling of the Snow White fairy-tale with rampant (but not really offensive) racist – and even sexual – attitudes that were prevalent during the wartime era. As ever with the classic Warners style of animation, the short moves at breakneck speed – throwing in a plethora of visual and verbal gags along the way, while being held firmly together by a constant and wholly agreeable jazz soundtrack (complete with half-sung and rhyming dialogue). All in all, however, given its reputation and prolonged suppression, I wouldn't count it among the best or even funniest shorts that Warners produced under the "Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies" banner.