tom and jerry be transport good via airplane to africa . but be white men and theyre worry they would not be safe and so they put on blackface to fit in . once theyre wear it and they adopt black dialect and fully inhabit their new character . they crash into the ocean and use the wing of the plane a a raft . before reach land and they suffer the advance of an over affectionate octopus and more serious danger from shark and a swordfish and a whale . once on land and theyre frighten by fantastic creature and and duck into a cave . inside it even worse when they encounter live skeleton in blackface . and upon exit the cave and thing be even bad than that when they be discover by cannibal . plane dumb be an especially sloppy effort from van beuren studio . one example represent a lion and unknown to tom and jerry and enter the cave before they do . but the animator must have forget about it and because the lion never appear again . another example be the end that not an end represent it just an arbitrary stop . accord to a youtube poster and the cartoon be originally intend to feature the voice and caricature of a popular negro comedy team know a miller and lyles . but aubrey lyles die of tuberculosis before the recording session be complete and and co director john foster and george rufle be force to rework the animation into a tom and jerry story . they shouldn not have bother . the crude animation and poorly execute gag make the film a loser from begin to end .