[78-L] Charles Correll WAS RE: Stephen Foster

[David Lennick]

Well, I found someone selling "Calvin And The Colonel"..8 episodes on DVD-R.
http://www.ioffer.com/offer_transactions/show/8635646
No idea what the quality will be like, but it's only been 47 years since I last 
saw that program anywhere. It seems to have attained cult status on some 
animation websites. I also found one episode online but couldn't get it to play.

dl

Elizabeth McLeod wrote:
> This interview likely comes from the era when Correll and Gosden were 
> trying to keep their careers alive with "Calvin and the Colonel," a sort 
> of post-racial Amos 'n' Andy in animated cartoon form, in which the 
> characters were presented as a Southern fox and bear. Their speech was 
> similar, but not identical to that of Amos 'n' Andy. During this period, 
> when race was becoming an extremely hot-button issue in television, 
> making such a statement would have been seen as necessarily diplomatic, 
> even though it was quite inaccurate.
> 
> During the actual run of "Amos 'n' Andy," there was never any question 
> that the characters were supposed to be black -- they occasionally 
> referred to themselves as "colored," and there were even scenes in the 
> early years of the radio series that obliquely acknowledged the existence 
> of segregation -- even the de-facto sort which prevailed in the North. 
> 
> All of this examined in detail in my book.
> 
> Elizabeth