![]() ![]() UA kept the cartoons after the Transamerica Corporation purchased the studio in 1967. The motion picture studio United Artists (UA) acquired AAP in 1957 and kept all 337 cartoons in syndication. However, syndicated television depended on the standards of individual stations instead of one national network, and many stations had no qualms about airing the eleven cartoons. ![]() ![]() African and African American characters appear in eleven of the 337 films as the main characters (not counting the Inki series), depicted largely as nearly-naked African natives, antebellum southern slaves, and northern jazz-lovers.Īfrican Americans protested the theatrical circulation of some of these cartoons upon their original releases, and television networks refused to show similar cartoons from other studios. AAP immediately offered the cartoons for television syndication, and in 1957 they made their debut on local stations nationwide. In 1956 the company Associated Artists Productions (AAP) purchased the library of Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoons produced to 1948 and Looney Tunes cartoons made between 1943 to 1948–a total of 337 short films. ![]()
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