September in the Rain (film)

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'''''September in the Rain''''' is a 1937 [[Warner Bros.]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoon directed by [[Friz Freleng]].{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |date=1989 |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |location=New York, NY |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |page=102 |isbn=0-8050-0894-2}} The short was released on December 18, 1937.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=June 6, 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/104/mode/2up |pages=104–106}}

'''''September in the Rain''''' is a 1937 [[Warner Bros. Entertainment|Warner Bros.]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoon directed by [[Friz Freleng]].{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |date=1989 |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |location=New York, NY |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |page=102 |isbn=0-8050-0894-2}} The short was released on December 18, 1937.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=June 6, 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/104/mode/2up |pages=104–106}}

Timed at 5 minutes and 50 seconds, ''September in the Rain'' is one of the shortest among all Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' or ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' animated short subjects. Due to the controversy engendered by the sequences considered to depict [[Ethnic stereotyping|racial stereotyping]], it has been most commonly edited to a much shorter running of four or even three minutes, with the invariable excision of the [[Fats Waller]]–[[Louis Armstrong]] "[[Nagasaki (song)|Nagasaki]]" production number{{Cite web |url=http://usslave.blogspot.com/2012/03/tin-pan-alley-cats-1943.html |title="Racist Cartoon: Tin Pan Alley Cats" at ''US Slave'' (March 28, 2012) |date=March 28, 2012 |access-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-date=October 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013194606/http://usslave.blogspot.com/2012/03/tin-pan-alley-cats-1943.html |url-status=live }} and, often, the [[Al Jolson]] title song performance. Although not listed among the [[Censored Eleven]], the cartoon has been exhibited infrequently, even in its brief censored version.{{Cite web |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=September+in+the+Rain+Merrie+Melodies&tbm=isch#imgrc=kvTWNnz7mCKhGM%3A |title=Original title card, screen captures and other images associated with ''September in the Rain'' |access-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-date=May 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240502063926/https://www.google.com/search?q=September+in+the+Rain+Merrie+Melodies&client=safari&rls=en&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiThf66l_rOAhXF5SYKHZqzBS0Q7AkILw&biw=1280&bih=1342&udm=2#imgrc=kvTWNnz7mCKhGM%3A |url-status=live }}

Timed at 5 minutes and 50 seconds, ''September in the Rain'' is one of the shortest among all Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' or ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' animated short subjects. Due to the controversy engendered by the sequences considered to depict [[Ethnic stereotyping|racial stereotyping]], it has been most commonly edited to a much shorter running of four or even three minutes, with the invariable excision of the [[Fats Waller]]–[[Louis Armstrong]] "[[Nagasaki (song)|Nagasaki]]" production number{{Cite web |url=http://usslave.blogspot.com/2012/03/tin-pan-alley-cats-1943.html |title="Racist Cartoon: Tin Pan Alley Cats" at ''US Slave'' (March 28, 2012) |date=March 28, 2012 |access-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-date=October 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013194606/http://usslave.blogspot.com/2012/03/tin-pan-alley-cats-1943.html |url-status=live }} and, often, the [[Al Jolson]] title song performance. Although not listed among the [[Censored Eleven]], the cartoon has been exhibited infrequently, even in its brief censored version.{{Cite web |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=September+in+the+Rain+Merrie+Melodies&tbm=isch#imgrc=kvTWNnz7mCKhGM%3A |title=Original title card, screen captures and other images associated with ''September in the Rain'' |access-date=September 7, 2016 |archive-date=May 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240502063926/https://www.google.com/search?q=September+in+the+Rain+Merrie+Melodies&client=safari&rls=en&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiThf66l_rOAhXF5SYKHZqzBS0Q7AkILw&biw=1280&bih=1342&udm=2#imgrc=kvTWNnz7mCKhGM%3A |url-status=live }}