01:00:42 42.03 |
popular 1920s-30s Black Face comedians Moran & Mack as THE TWO BLACK CROWS appear in this two reel circa 1931 film comedy - opening scene stranded on raft playing solitaire and reading a cook book - speak in pseudo African American dialect -starving on raft reading a cook book and eating the book
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01:05:54 354.61 |
man in gorilla suit terrorizes "African" village scared natives run. ( racist slapstick comedy scene )
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01:07:00 420.64 |
wild lion chases black face comedians
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01:08:34 514.88 |
gorilla chases black face comedian who takes off his oversized shoes two black faced comedians try to hide from " gorilla" in a ditch -
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01:12:14 734.71 |
black face comics climb up tree to escape from Gorilla but a leopard climbs up tree after them - exaggerated comic reactions - racist stereotypes used. try to avoid falling into a lagoon full of alligators cu group of snapping alligators
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01:14:19 859.31 |
black face comedians try to escape from a wind storm ( hollywood wind machine created!) with Gorilla Gorilla and Two Black Crows escape together on raft
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Description: The Two Black Crows (also called The Black Crows and Moran and Mack) was a blackface comedy act popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The duo appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio, comedy records, and in film features and shorts.
Keywords: POLITICALLY INCORRECT
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