Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Sunday Go To Meetin' Time

Sunday Go To Meetin' Time was released to theaters on August 8th, 1936. The plot follows the misadventures of a black man as he sneaks out of church and tries to steal a chicken. Instead, he ends up getting knocked unconscious and dreams he has gone to hell for trying to steal the chicken.

This cartoon along with 10 others was deemed to feature racist depictions of African Americans that were too integral to the films for simple cuts to make them palatable for modern audiences. Distribution of it and the 10 others has been suppressed since 1968. In October 2010 it was announced that all Censored Eleven cartoons would finally be available for release on DVD in 2011 on the Warner Archives collection of DVD sets.

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