1947-05-23 Loose in a Caboose (Little Lulu)

WARNING: RACIAL STEREOTYPES!
Once Again, this copy of Loose in a Caboose has more color and detail than most of the others floating around. Once again, PAL speedup corrected, English soundtrack laid down, probably as good as this cartoon is going to look without a full-blown restoration

[@mirko-lw4kd]

Looking back at this show I realized how many racial stereotypes there were...smh

[@dogg-paws]

You choose to get offended; your loss.

[@chillixin]

Honestly

[@eboneetucker977]

Fr look at 1:05

[@sonicfanboy3375]

Most other cartoons at the time weren't any better...

[@toplaycool21]

What is movies like Precious, The Princess and the Frog, 12 Years a Slave, Moonlight, Moana, Encanto, Black Panther etc are racist too?

[@plucas1]

For those interested, Famous Studios was the renamed Fleischer Studios after Paramount acquired it, after the Fleischer brothers left in 1942. You can see a lot of Fleischer touches in the animation, as well as William Pennell as the conductor, who also voiced Bluto from the Popeye cartoons at this time.

[@levilady03]

My mom use to sing this song to me when I was a little girl. I guess I truly was a little Lulu!

[@Uncutcartoons247]

Little Lulu in blackface. Now I've seen everything.

[@Meanmanmartin2007]

The conductor seems to closely resemble the man in the Casper cartoon "The Friendly Ghost" who comes to the house asking about the mortage.

[@jamesleopard8518]

Seeing the banana shop, and wanting to make a stop is not an emergency!!!!

[@aprilmartinez6173]

aww lulu melts my heart so innocent dont realize shes being bad or mischievous lol

[@cooperlumsden2131]

Oh, why does that melt your heart, April?

[@jaygooese4242]

@@cooperlumsden2131 good question

[@jdvinson6157]

i believe that this came out in may of 1946

[@jamesleopard8518]

This reminds me of Thomas and the Guard (Thomas and the Conductor) Thomas and Friends season 1

[@parisr.2044]

Damn lil lu lu a thot at 3:15

[@06090401111111111111]

wow decent

[@XanthoGrl]

Wow I haven't seen this since I was a kid, totally missed the black characters and stereotypes back then... Went totally over my head

[@jeanakatherine9369]

Me too! My grandma use to play this for me

[@lacharawintermyers1984]

Same!

[@TriforceSamurai]

Yea, I also missed the "wild as any Zulu, and just as hard to tame" in the theme song.

[@trifource]

@@TriforceSamuraiholy shit i didn’t realize that’s what they said

[@TriforceSamurai]

@@trifource lol same.

[@carlthecrusader2322]

Showed this to my 8 year old daughter and told her I had watched this on a tape same age as she is now. What was her comment? Lulu is going to have a hard time pooping. (She was eating a lot of bananas.)

[@warriorsorb1111]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@SWOO1987]

Oh wow! Heh I used to watch this cartoon back then as a kid too. Now that I am in my mid 30's I still feel very happy to have watch this great and classic Little Lulu cartoon movie again.

[@soulassassin0g]

I never saw this as racist when I was a kid. It wasn't until racism was taught to me and that's how I realized that people are different and we're not all the same. Such a fucked up thing to teach a child.

[@NoDeductions]

some people never want to hear the truth

[@electricbop]

This is so stupid. Just because you don’t see something as racist doesn’t mean it’s not. Racism exists and it might not affect you but it does a lot of people

[@jeanakatherine9369]

I didn’t even know what racism was when I was a lil kid watching this at my grandmas house! It was one of my favorite cartoons

[@volumeunitsoundsystem3983]

"though you're wild as any Zulu, and you're just as hard to tame..."

[@teejay6386]

Yeah, it's different hearing it now as an adult 🥴

[@8bitdaydreams]

Brutal, to throw such a cutie pie out of a moving train lol

[@davidwesley2525]

Little Lulu is being a Pest. Lulu is always getting into mischief.

[@devinpaul9026]

Eh. Little Audrey was TEN times more adorable.

[@davidwesley2525]

@@devinpaul9026 and just as mischievous as Little Lulu. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 Although Betty Boop is the Most Adorable. 💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘

[@HiFiDollie]

Little Lulu is one tricky little girl.

[@brianodonnell9571]

+Hi-Fi Dollie I Wonder, She Was Upseted The Conductor!

[@kekedouglas4372]

Yep u can,t take us back on her

[@mikepointer5067]

When I was a little boy before I understood the concept of stereotype, I always thought the black guy carrying the luggage in the beginning was an anthropomorphic cow

[@kacmac2340]

Wow!!!

[@Steamer96]

Man, I can't believe The Polar Express ripped off this cartoon.

[@antouceesay6253]

4:50 Lulu is good at many things...but metal gear solid is not one of them...

[@angel_yamazaki_]

I found my old tape of this cartoon :( Father used to let us watch this before going to sleep. We never get tired of watching this again and again hahahaha and I love the banana scene

[@halliburton7]

Lots of stereotypes - *white woman* with a beautiful body in a bikini; railroad conductor who is *fat and ignorant*. Don't get me going about *racial*. This is a frickin cartoon.

[@AdajaSade]

My parents had this on tape! I used to love it as a child. So glad its here on youtube.

[@gnikcohs]

Even though the colors might be a bit off Paramount's painting looked really good here, especially liked the seats (and the passengers) on the train. But that conductor was one mean sonuvabitch.

[@michelofelia7735]

Had this episode on vhs when I was a kid I'm 22 years old now good times .

[@cooperlumsden2131]

So did I, Michel - and I'm now 23 which is how old I turned not last month, but the one before.

[@diddymuck]

Racist images rarely appeared in the Fleischer cartoons...maybe in one or two Betty Boop works but popeye was devoid of black's being ridiculed. Only when Paramount took over the studios did such atrocity become a common occurrence.

[@dogg-paws]

You'd be mistaken.

[@kevinleroy3374]

I didn't know Lulu started as a one panel cartoon

[@cooperlumsden2131]

Well Kevin, this was the very first time Little Lulu first existed. This episode of her was made in 1947.

[@jamesleopard8518]

3:24 How many Bananas could she eat?

[@Emily-Mers]

don't put banana in ice box.... lol

[@charlesmangum3108]

Little Lulu is a real lulu

[@Annarijo86]

And I also think to myself "Don't put banana in icebox!" when I get bananas. LOL...

[@jamesleopard8518]

2:31 This reminds me when the man with the binoculars pulled the emergency cable inside Annie the orange coach on the TV show Thomas and Friends

[@KreKre99]

I had this one on vhs when I was a kid.

[@TrunkJunky]

Why did Lulu hide her ticket instead of giving it to the ticket man?

[@cooperlumsden2131]

I actually have no clue to be honest.

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

Presumably in case she lost it. I've never seen her with any kind of pockets, so I suppose it stands to reason that she'd use her sock as a pocket in the absence.

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

And he's not a ticket *_"man",_* he's a ticket *_inspector!!_*

[@DrFruikenstein]

Thanks for making the technical corrections to this cartoon. It's in about the same condition as the last time I saw it on TV about 35 years ago. My own personal VHS copy doesn't look this good. My copy looks like color was an after thought.

[@thehiddeneye9271]

as a black man I never really cared is that strange?

[@UnbelievableSeries]

Nope, it makes you better than some people

[@carlthecrusader2322]

I'm Asian and never cared for the Asian stereotypes in any of these cartoons. I just enjoyed the as they were: cartoons.

[@electricbop]

You don’t care that it’s how white people perceive you. Ok

[@oliviawarnick6102]

@@carlthecrusader2322 so did I

[@user-141N]

just means you’re ignorant

[@tiffanyraykrueger8621]

So now that I'm grown.....

[@anaism.5821]

being excited at getting to see nostalgic cartoons from childhood: 😃 seeing all the racism and stereotypes that i didn't understand as a kid: 😖

[@MuToiDMaN]

To this day when I grab bananas at the supermarket I still think to myself "don't put banana in icebox" 2:37

[@TheLookyus]

2:37

[@jaygooese4242]

5:25 funny

[@withurshield931]

I name my cabbage patch doll Little Lulu.

[@solongago57]

Delightful! I had forgotten these cartoons were this good.

[@jamesleopard8518]

2:31 This reminds me when the boy with the blue robe pulled the emergency brake on The Polar Express the Christmas movie

[@crashguy4196]

The VHS copy that I owned with this cartoon on it had all of the blackface scenes completely removed.

[@madalinmariusnicolae5132]

Little Lulu = Big Olive by Papaye

[@trippcory]

1:31: What about the police jerkass conductor?

[@TheLookyus]

1:31

[@trippcory]

Paramounts lulu is much more naughty than Cinars.

[@raymondyorysh7401]

6:45 What’s the matter with the train conductor

[@RKLuffy88]

I remember this cartoon as well! The banana scene I fondly remember. Again, I want Thunderbean Animation to release the Little Lulu cartoons on DVD!

[@serinabarbadensis]

Oh the clock says 7:30, it's really after 10~ I love this song 😻 hahaha

[@TheAeroAvatar]

5:46 I had this on my 50 Classic Cartoons tapes as a kid..........And I am shocked at how many of the shorts on those tapes had these disgusting blackface gags. This never should have been in a thing back then.

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

🎶 "We've got to celebrate our differences!" 🎶

[@cesarhuancachirinos49]

1:21 the train got a face like thomas

[@okami912]

Wow, I really shouldn't be surprised but I kinda am.

[@jamesleopard8518]

Pulling the Emergency Stop Signal could get the Girl with the red dress arrested.

[@jamesleopard8518]

2:31 Who pulled the emergency brake on the train?

[@kacmac2340]

Little Lulu

[@Packguardian_gacha8684]

Oh! I remember this! I watched this with the class in 1st grade I think.

[@cooperlumsden2131]

You mean when you were in grade 1 at primary school? And how old are you now?

[@Packguardian_gacha8684]

@@cooperlumsden2131 20

[@gabchaim8232]

By showing all the characteristic stereotypes ( even totally over the top ), it holds a mirror to the spectator. That's what we call satire. I consider ( the original) 27 Little Lulu- episodes as pure classics, if not the best in the genre, at least comparable with Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Langstrumpf. It's a pity that there's only so few of it.

[@smogity]

what is that black guy saying?

[@kacmac2340]

I don't know.

[@jeremybrown1598]

Snatch your bags

[@jamesleopard8518]

OMG!!! They left the train conductor out!!!! No way!!!!

[@leticiagranados3754]

That guy is mean he was about to choke the little gurl

[@jaydanwest6472]

6:39

[@jamesleopard8518]

Nobody rides that train without a ticket!!!!

[@trippcory]

Train whistle: bring me salsa!

[@Henryduckfan63]

Do you have copies of Lulu Gets The Birdie,Eggs Don't Bounce,or A Scout With A Gout in quality this good? If so could you please upload them? Thanks for posting all these other great quality copies!

[@etherealityfr]

2018?

[@TheDrjaydrjay]

I've NEVER seen anyone slip on a banana peel before...now dogshit, on the other hand...

[@michaelmcgee8543]

it looks like the third color had faded cause the sky is green but it look like it was fixed up a bit

[@thatundergroundflavorrareo3194]

Michael Mcgee it was probably filmed in two-strip Technicolor, which only uses red and green hues in films. It is the color process that many cartoon studios used (besides Disney) to make color cartoons before 1935. Disney had exclusive rights to use full Technicolor, but other studios had to use the two-strip process, which was cheaper. Occasionally studios would use it in the 1940s to make lower budget cartoons. This was probably one of them.

[@cesarhuancachirinos49]

6:26 the train is goes to get off the rails The train o gordon : no condutor Lulu: ah ha Station joke here

[@Handlinyomommascheeks]

this episode was racist

[@changvasejarik62]

Every episode is racist or do skip the intro?

[@jamesleopard8518]

She shouldn't pull the emergency brake on the train.

[@MrSatanicNumberS]

lulu had the ticket in her other sock

[@happyguy9783]

Pete: He-he-hey you! Did you see a mutt and a little runt around here? Little Lulu: 5:50 Pete: Thanks, conductor. Conductor? W-Why, that's me!

[@Dinosorable]

I have this one!

[@rafsoto15]

I like this one....

[@otakumarcus]

1:25 best moment ever

[@TheLookyus]

1:25

[@otakumarcus]

1:25 best moment ever

[@TheLookyus]

1:25

[@lw1343]

People dont like the racial stereotypes? Then look at todays cartoons portraying black women with bad attitudes, ghetto language and large rear ends. No outrage. Are stereotypes lies?

[@TackyRackyComixNEO]

People do get outraged about that too, you're just not seeing or hearing the people who do.

[@Chernobog54]

Since the the 1980s the black face scenes where erased this video has the original footage

[@06090401111111111111]

awesome fish

[@stickkey]

When I was a kid I had a bunch of cartoons on a tape and this was one of them...there was also one with a really train making weird faces, blowing steam and speeding through some tunnels, I know it sounds stupid, but maybe somebody knows the name of that cartoon? Nevermind I found it here in case if anyone remembers it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6ulqJd5pdB9fcU

[@TheJameslehr]

Little Lulu Moppet not the person one could ever trust with banana peels (Making her debut in the Saturday Evening Post as a flower girl at a wedding tossing banana peels rather than flower petals.).

[@justinharvey1355]

2:39 -Life lesson

[@loken3139]

1:12 and 5:47 Blatant depictions of racist content.

[@anthonypusateri9015]

I can see why this was way before the George Floyd protests.

[@jamesleopard8518]

She should know that the emergency stop signal is for emergency purposes only!!!!

[@coringraham1294]

Funniest Lassie EVER! I love it how she blew the Train Whistle.

[@cooperlumsden2131]

Little Lulu was too clever in this video as she kept getting back on the train after the conductor kept kicking her out every time, but he finally allowed her to stay in it as Lulu finally found her ticket and gave it to him and why did he get out of the back of the carriage and pretended to be a train by crawling along the track and making the noise of it? 🚂

[@SamuelMachadoFilho]

Lançamento nos EUA: 23 de maio de 1946. Produção e direção: Seymour Kmeitel. Co-produção: Izzy Sparber. Produtor associado: Sam Buchwald. Música original e orquestrações: Winston Sharples. Sistema sonoro: RCA. Vozes: Cecil Roy (Luluzinha), Jackson Beck (motorista do trem) e Jack Mercer (vendedor de refrigerante). Distribuição original: Paramount Pictures.

[@limechecksout]

Theres a fucking pun at the ending

[@kerronmcsween6095]

i never see this one before, thanks

[@andymate2006]

I remember watching this at my Nan's house when I was a kid. I always said the conductor in this is very rude. Also I just realises how racist this is. Anyway it was made back when racism wasn't an issue.

[@gertha1590]

This brings back so much memories

[@andrewscungio3200]

Original title cards found.

[@Miracle_qween]

2023 any one ❤

[@triton3839]

Little bitch

[@strawberrireli]

It's so sad this was socially acceptable and okay to watch back then.

[@thatundergroundflavorrareo3194]

Why do you say that? The stereotypes?

[@strawberrireli]

yes. like the black face and big lips.

[@thatundergroundflavorrareo3194]

It is politically incorrect but you must remember that this was normal back then and wasn't considered "racist" until 1963.

[@strawberrireli]

Yeah, I understand.

[@John80220]

plant grl In New York, Ch. 5 already was editing the Lulu cartoons (and the pre-1948 Warner Bros. and other Paramount shorts they had) by 1961 to eliminate racial stereotypes. The NAACP had protested back in their early 1950s over images of blacks on television, in shows like "Amos & Andy" and the Hollywood/New York animation studios took the hint, with characteriztions like Mandy/Petunia in the Little Lulu/Little Audrey series or Mammy in the Tom & Jerry series disappearing by 1952 (though that didn't mean you couldn't still get a cartoon censored -- Do a Google search for 1958's "Chew Chew Baby" -- it was part of the Harvey animation package but never was aired by Ch. 5 in New York after the cartoons went to syndication in 1962).

[@neidelucyf9837]

😈😯

[@dorisvargaschambi3774]

p

[@momjosh12CARTOONS]

The racial stereotypes should have been removed and replaced by another scene but its too late now that it is old.

[@davidu4840]

Drink bleach...

[@roseyg80]

This is how people used to act I know it's creepy

[@dogg-paws]

We already have a lot of political correctness in today's cartoons; let's not put them in the old cartoons either.

[@Lucifermits1092]

I think it's important to keep the past intact as it was, despite the completely inappropriate/awful things they contain by today's standards. Preserving things as they were can show progress in many areas, censoring it mutes those points and will only cause more strife breaking such thoughts. These were made decades before I was born, recorded by my parents and/or grand-parents. The racial undertones weren't apparent until I was older, but I see it now and don't understand why. The way I see it, only ignorant people can judge someone by the color of their skin, by their ethnicity, background, carry on... These are period piece, leave them as they are. ( I think Andy Warhol is shit, but some say it's art; I won't argue with them though I will avoid it at all cost).

[@dogg-paws]

DJM-anon Imagine us being judged by people of the 22nd century. Would we say our morals and standards are correct and theirs are wrong? Or would they be right? Think about it.

[@TheKramos98]

4:51-5:00 LOL

[@TheLookyus]

4:51-5:00

[@charleneibarra2416]

Best part 5:45-6:02 lmao

[@jeremybrown1598]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BEST PART?! That’s not pc!

[@TheLookyus]

1:03 Is Lulu Moppet a grownup lady?

[@kacmac2340]

I'm think, that she is Child anyway.

[@cooperlumsden2131]

Don't be silly, Lulu Moppet definitely looks more like a child to me. I mean it.

[@TheLookyus]

@@cooperlumsden2131What are you talking about?

[@cooperlumsden2131]

Well, that comment asked if Lulu Moppet is a grown-up lady and it’s false that, that’s what Lulu is to be honest.

[@TheLookyus]

@@cooperlumsden2131When was Lulu Moppet a little girl?

[@jelenajeanine8493]

I stopped watching little lulu because of this racist episode

[@jelenajeanine8493]

The reason why there are racial problems is because of people like you who excuse racism because "no one cared". The white bigots who weren't affected by it didn't care, but the black people who had to live with discrimination because of the false images that cartoons like these portrayed did.

[@jelenajeanine8493]

Do you know who watches cartoons? Children do. Children who grow up to become racist adults because of the ideas that were introduced into their minds when they were young. Just look at the way whites were acting during the civil rights movement. Beating protesters, blowing up churches, and turning loose dogs on children. What do you think they were watching when they were young in the 40s?

[@felox1715]

Jelena Jeanine excuse me but I watched this before and it didn't bother me at all since I was just a kid in the 2000s and just saw the character as wierd but not instantly connecting it towards a racial stereotype until much later when I knew it was one

[@felox1715]

for example I saw this and didn't instantly connect it with African Americans more as a odd character

[@skittles3970]

Jelena Jeanine I TOTALLY agree with you. There are those people who just never linked on to what this really meant, and I'm guessing the people who keep trying to defend themselves (the ones who are backstabbing you) don't know what it means. Even though this Little Lulu was made ALL THE WAY BACK IN THE 40's, anyone of a different race can still get highly offended by it (not that enough trash is still said about ANYTHING to this present day)