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

[Thomas Whetston]

Some of them are free over at archive org

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=calvin%20colonel

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:45 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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
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