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A robin is shot so the woodland community holds a trial to investigate.
Who Killed Cock Robin?
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¿Quien mató al petirrojo?, Qui a Tué le Rouge-Gorge ?, Кто убил петуха Робина?, Chi ha ucciso Cock Robin?, 谁杀了知更鸟, ¿Quién mató al jilguero Robin?
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25 Jun 1935
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Animation Challenge 2019 - Week 15: A Silly Symphony
This was ... kind of weird, frankly. David Hand was an animator who would go on to work on a lot of Disney's classics, from Bambi to Fantasia, and his work here is squarely in what would be the Disney style--it's charming but somewhat unremarkable, with the Bird Town essentially being an excuse for half a dozen cheap puns before we get to the trial which is.......................feels sort of kafkaesque in its highlighting of a justice system that's completely dysfunctional (the judge and prosecutor just repeat the same question to a number of helpless witnesses over and over, the police engage in rampant and random brutality, particularly against racially-coded birds, the…
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imagining Hitchcock seeing this and being like lmao gotta put this in my next picture
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Probably the worst ride at Disney. The terror of being named Cock. Like everyone else here I am constantly on edge something is racist.
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Its chilling depiction of the criminal justice system is either deeply flawed, or accurately depicts the system as deeply flawed. I’m leaning towards the latter.
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About the weakest Silly Symphony I've seen yet. Less funny and creative than the others I've seen to date.
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These bird designs are great, especially the parrot.
Depicts how casual police brutality can occur in society.
The love between Cock Robin and Jenny Wren is smoldering!
A classic short.
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Disney in 1935 was depicting police brutality and exposing the issues of the death penalty. Wild to say the least.
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At this point, I've been so jaded with the amount of racial fuckery unfortunately and unnecessarily shoehorned into (most?) classic cartoons that the appearance of every black or brown-colored bird made me worry that I was unknowingly witnessing some sort of racist humor that's just so dated it's lost its clarity as a caricature. I'm still not totally sure I didn't -- the blackbird was, I think, supposed to be Stepin Fetchit, and the jury looked just a little too minstrel-y. That being said, the rest of the cartoon is fine -- cute, not remarkable, although Jenny Wren as a Mae West caricature more than makes up for the price of admission.