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Not sure what to make of this
Camptown Races is one of those cartoons where some will find a lot to like about it and then others who'll hate it with a passion, one also where it is very easy to see both sides. Because Camptown Races does have much to admire, but to me it is not a classic either.
The best thing about Camptown Races is the music, which throughout is brilliant, so much so that it actually brings the rating up more than one notch. The title song is already a catchy notch, and with Winston Sharples' vibrant and characterful treatment of it and very energetic vocals it manages to be even catchier. The animals have amusing personalities and are far from bland and there are some amusing, if never really hilarious, moments in the first half. Camptown Races is a plot less cartoon(a lot of Famous Studios' cartoons are, or at least on the thin side) but the first half is very energised in pace. The animation is agreed pretty good mostly with lovely use of colour and smoothly drawn backgrounds that flow well into one frame to the next.
On the other hand, I didn't care hugely for some of the character designs, which seemed rather crude and exaggerated. Camptown Races was uneven for personal tastes, with a strong first half and then the second half loses momentum, other than in the song, and has little imaginative and lacked humour. Camptown Races has been criticised for racism(or at least stereotypical, agree with it being unsubtly stereotypical, personal view, but not sure about whether it's racist) and it is also easy to see why people would be offended. I wasn't and am aware of the history and origins of the song making the character designs hardly inappropriate, but the designs just weren't to my tastes.
In conclusion, not one to avoid but not a classic. Not a very easy cartoon to rate. 5/10 Bethany Cox
The best thing about Camptown Races is the music, which throughout is brilliant, so much so that it actually brings the rating up more than one notch. The title song is already a catchy notch, and with Winston Sharples' vibrant and characterful treatment of it and very energetic vocals it manages to be even catchier. The animals have amusing personalities and are far from bland and there are some amusing, if never really hilarious, moments in the first half. Camptown Races is a plot less cartoon(a lot of Famous Studios' cartoons are, or at least on the thin side) but the first half is very energised in pace. The animation is agreed pretty good mostly with lovely use of colour and smoothly drawn backgrounds that flow well into one frame to the next.
On the other hand, I didn't care hugely for some of the character designs, which seemed rather crude and exaggerated. Camptown Races was uneven for personal tastes, with a strong first half and then the second half loses momentum, other than in the song, and has little imaginative and lacked humour. Camptown Races has been criticised for racism(or at least stereotypical, agree with it being unsubtly stereotypical, personal view, but not sure about whether it's racist) and it is also easy to see why people would be offended. I wasn't and am aware of the history and origins of the song making the character designs hardly inappropriate, but the designs just weren't to my tastes.
In conclusion, not one to avoid but not a classic. Not a very easy cartoon to rate. 5/10 Bethany Cox
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Mar 29, 2015
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- Runtime7 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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