KID 'IN' AFRICA (1932) Shirley Temple & Danny Boone Jr. | Comedy | B&W

Baby Burlesks was a series of Pre-Code short films produced by Educational Pictures in the early 1930s. The series featured three-year-old Shirley Temple in her first screen appearances. In her autobiography, Temple describes the Baby Burlesks series as "a cynical exploitation of our childish innocence," and that the short films were sometimes racist or sexist.

SYNOPSIS
Missionary Cradlebait goes to the jungle to "civilize" the cannibals, but ends up in a cooking pot.

CAST & CREW
Shirley Temple as Madame Cradlebait
Danny Boone Jr. as Diaperzan

Directed by Jack Hays
Written by Charles Lamont
Produced by Jack Hays
Cinematography by Dwight Warren
Edited by William Austin, Howard Dillinger, Arthur Ellis
Music by Lee Zahler
Distributed by Universal Pictures, Educational Film Exchanges, Inc., Fox Film
Release dates April 11, 1931 - November 6, 1933
Running time 10-11 minutes
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
All eight films in the Baby Burlesks series were produced by Jack Hays and directed by Charles Lamont, except the first, Runt Page, which was directed by Ray Nazarro. As a star, Temple, received $10 a day.

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