Sign in or register
for additional privileges

Birth of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

Nicholas Sammond, Author

You appear to be using an older verion of Internet Explorer. For the best experience please upgrade your IE version or switch to a another web browser.

Space, Page 155

Lavish movie palaces in the 1920s sometims mounted combination shows, a mixture of live spectacle and film. These usually incorporated cartoons such as Big Chief Ko-Ko (1925) alongside live theatrical performances, including travelogues, orchestral interludes, and musical dance numbers.

This cartoon contains a number of stereotypical depictions of "Indian" characters within the theme of the interplay between the animation/animated and reality/animator. Although the Indian Chief gives Max Fleischer the background for the cartoon—as if the Chief had a certain amount of creative control over the animation—eventually Ko-Ko and Fitz turn on the Chief, who retaliates and forces them back into the Inkwell.
Comment on this page
 

Discussion of "Space, Page 155"

Add your voice to this discussion.

Checking your signed in status ...

Previous page on path Space, page 9 of 36 Next page on path

Related:  Labor, Page 128Performance, Page 34Race, Page 232Labor, Page 123Race, Page 206Conclusion, Page 284Labor, Page 132Performance, Page 77Space, Page 193Race, Page 258Labor, Page 96Race, Page 225Race, Page 251Space, Page 178Race, Page 253Introduction, Page 29Performance, Page 74Introduction, Page 23Labor, Page 122Labor, Page 110Space, Page 152Labor, Page 112Labor, Page 129Performance, Page 41Labor, Page 133Conclusion, Page 290Labor, Page 119Introduction, Page 6Race, Page 224Performance, Page 84Space, Page 148Race, Page 235Performance, Page 54Race, Page 231Space, Page 163Conclusion, Page 278Conclusion, Page 298Performance, Page 82Space, Page 194Labor, Page 88Labor, Page 98Performance, Page 50Race, Page 220Race, Page 239Space, Page 165Race, Page 221Space, Page 150Performance, Page 47Space, Page 156Race, Page 229Race, Page 230Introduction, Page 14Performance, Page 72Conclusion, Page 275Conclusion, Page 292Space, Page 183Space, Page 188Space, Page 172Space, Page 182Space, Page 191Conclusion, Page 289Race, Page 261Race, Page 213Race, Page 204Space, Page 184Performance, Page 52Conclusion, Page 291Performance, Page 35Performance, Page 45Space, Page 175Space, Page 187Space, Page 170Space, Page 177Conclusion, Page 286Race, Page 254Space, Page 190Performance, Page 43Labor, Page 113Introduction, Page 30Space, Page 197Performance, Page 60Conclusion, Page 304Performance, Page 44Space, Page 146Space, Page 143Labor, Page 101Space, Page 189Performance, Page 42Space, Page 181Race, Page 247Space, Page 162Conclusion, Page 300Labor, Page 109Introduction, Page 2Introduction, Page 21Conclusion, Page 302Labor, Page 97Race, Page 248Performance, Page 70Space, Page 141Space, Page 138Race, Page 252Conclusion, Page 296Conclusion, Page 273Introduction, Page 4Conclusion, Page 303Introduction, Page 1Performance, Page 46