Also in 1935 the Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel features the grandfather Colonel barking "piccaninny" at two young children.
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In the 1936 Hal Roach feature General Spanky starring the Our Gang children, Buckwheat gets his foot tangled in the cord that blows the whistle on the river boat.
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In the 1935 Shirley Temple film The Littlest Rebel the word “pickaninny” is used to describe the young slave children who are friends to Virgie, but excluded from her birthday party at the beginning of the film.
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The titular character was a playful pickaninny, his mother a protective mammy, Professor Scarecrow being a black scam artist, and the Blackbird serving as his fast-talking partner-in-crime.
"Climb de Golden Fence : (oh my! wicked piccaninny)", lyrics by Hattie Starr, M. Witmark & Sons, 1895, interpolated into a production of C.W. Taylor's 1852 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.