Hot Breath Harry is a hot trumpeter at a jazz club. He finds himself drafted into the Army, where he’s assigned to be the bugler of an African-American company. But everyone hates the bugler, because he blows reveille at the ungodly hour of 5 AM sharp. Sure enough, on his first day, Harry gets pelted with everything imaginable. He lands against a wall, where his trumpet falls on him. He plays a swinging wakeup that segues into the title tune, and nobody minds waking up to this. Everyone swings through the whole day, even when three soldiers march into a lake and two soldiers, followed by a grinning alligator, march out.
Director: Walter Lantz.
Writers: Ben Hardaway, Lowell Elliot.
Animators: Laverne Harding (as Verne Harding), Alex Lovy, George Dane (uncredited), Les Kline (uncredited), Hal Mason (uncredited), Paul J. Smith (uncredited), Ralph Somerville (uncredited), Frank Tipper (uncredited).
Composers: Hugh Prince (as Hughie Prince), Darrell Calker (uncredited).
1942 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoons.
WOW, racist as fuck. Things like this should be in a separate category with a warning label. The thumbnail alone is horrible- there is no justification for this.
For years I have used this site frequently and I won’t be moving forward. I am a person of color and I have shared this site with tons of immigrants, other people of color, and students I mentor– but now I am ashamed. Please consider making a space on this site for unethical films like this.
Yes, please either remove this film or put a strong warning on it and change the thumbnail image. Jeez, you guys! No censorship, of course, but label it and explain it. This crap SHOULD be available to teach people, NOT to entertain.
These are products of their time.
They depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society.
These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.
Rather than remove content, we should acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.
Thank you for putting this up. Don’t listen to the REAL fascists that don’t understand that we have this part of history whether people like it or not. So tired of the intolerant left that screams racism about everything. These people are clowns. The colleges and mainstream media creates these idiots.
The film is very clearly racist and goes against my views, racism has been growing a lot the past decades and I can understand that these films don’t help to that cause so I get why people are upset. The only reason why I uploaded this short film is because it was nomimated for an Oscar and I try to upload as many of those as possible as there’s a lot of people who like to collect them for their own personal collection, that’s it, nothing else.