Trivia / Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

• Creator Backlash: While he never disowned it, Bob Clampett did admit that changing attitudes on race in America, including his own, made the short come off as more offensive than originally intended. When attending screenings of the short, Clampett would often preface them with an apology.
• Doing It for the Art: Part of why Clampett made the cartoon was so that he could use it to help his black friends get a foot in the film industry. He even wanted to replace Carl Stalling's standard orchestra for a full jazz orchestra led by Eddie Beals, in much the same way that Max and Dave Fleischer hired Cab Calloway to score the Betty Boop cartoons Minnie the Moocher and Snow White (1933), but producer Leon Schlesinger, a very notorious cheapskate, vetoed the idea claiming it to be too expensive. Outside of the dancing in What's Opera, Doc?, this was also the only Looney Tunes short where the animators did any research. In this case, they went to jazz clubs to study the music and lingo.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Warner Bros. isn't putting this out on DVD anytime soon or uploading it on streaming services, so the only way to watch it is through bootleg recordings.
• What Could Have Been: The title was supposed to be "So White and de Sebben Dwarfs" but it was changed for fear that audiences who saw it on a marquee would assume it was the classic fairy tale.

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