Storyline Part religious
allegory and part church pageant, it presents the heavenly trial of a
woman who has died giving childbirth out of wedlock. The jailer wears a
mask death’s head mask and a nun’s habit with a skull and crossbones on
the front and God sits on an altar, flanked by angels, while the devil
attempts to convict the woman for her sins.
Storyline In this George Pal Puppetoon (production number U5-6), John Henry (voice
of Rex Ingram), legendary figure of American folklore, goes to work for
the C.& O. Railroad, which, shortly thereafter, buys an automatic
steel-driving engine, called the Inky-Poo. John Henry matches his
strength against the Inky-Poo, saying that any man can beat a machine
because a man has a mind. John Henry wins, but drops at the finish,
never to rise again. The choral music background is by the Luvenia Nash
Singers.
Storyline Betty Boop runs away from home with her friend, Bimbo the Dog. They end up in a cave where a walrus, with Cab Calloway's
voice, sings "Minnie the Moocher" and dances to the melancholy song. He
is joined in the performance by various ghosts, goblins, skeletons and
other frightening things. Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons
drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a mother
cat with skull-like eyes feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens; and
worse.
Storyline "You can't trust them with voting," says the sheriff about blacks in his community. It is 1964 in the segregated town of Catesville, Mississippi, and Rachel who is black and Jenny who is white are best friends caught up in the firestorm surrounding black voter registration. The adults, both black and white, afraid of the inevitable changes that are surely coming, hang onto the old ways of dealing with their difference. It will take courage and friendship of the two young girls to overcome the racial barriers that divide their community.