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Tin Pan Alley Cats
Tin Pan Alley Cats is a 1943 animated short subject, directed by Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of Warner Bros.' "Merrie Melodies" series. A follow-up to Clampett's successful "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs", released earlier in 1943, "Tin Pan Alley Cats" focuses upon contemporary themes of African-American culture, jazz music, and World War II, and features a caricature of jazz musician Fats Waller as an anthropomorphic cat. The short's centerpiece
" cat is distracted by what appears to be So White). Clampett's colleague Friz Freleng directed a cartoon titled "Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears" in 1944, essentially "Coal Black" remade with a different fairy tale, and Warner's director Chuck Jones directed a series of shorts starring a prepubescent African hunter named Inki from 1939 to 1950. Like "Coal Black", "Tin Pan Alley Cats" and "Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears" would also end up in the Censored Eleven.
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