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Okay, the deal here is Bosko teaching a gorilla how to chew gum in “Congo Jazz,” which doesn’t exactly sound like ‘Great Moments in Cinema’, but actually it’s kinda cute — like most of today’s film. Yes, yes, yes — Bosko is, in fact, a racist caricature of a black man, and he’s drawn in a style not a whole lot different than all the cartoon critters he meets in the cartoon jungle. But if you choose to make allowances for the cultural climate in which Bosko was designed, you’ll discover he exhibits scant stereotypical behavior. He does have that 1930’s thing for turning animals into musical instruments but, hey, most of the fauna do that to themselves already.

We’re lookin’ at one of the very first Looney Tunes — and it’s lookin’ back, sayin’ “Ha-Cha!”

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Dave Kirwan