Cartoon: Tokio Jokio (1943)
Tokio Jokio is a 1943 Looney Tunes propaganda short directed by Norman McCabe. The cartoon is notorious and controversial for its racist depictions of Japanese people. This is also noted for being the final Norman McCabe cartoon. The name of the cartoon is a pun on “Tokyo”, the capital of Japan (Tokio is the old English romanization), and “joke”. The… Read more →
