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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On 9 Aug 2025 17:34:59 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan )   
   wrote:   
      
      
   >   
   >Of course it's not any better when they do look at the product.   
   >For instance the snipping of a smoking scene and the black centauress   
   >from the "restored versions" of "Pecos Bill" & "Fantasia" respectively.   
      
   Censorship. A different problem, but certainly present.   
      
   There appear to be two approaches:   
   1. Don't censor, but make it clear that the offensive material is from   
   an offensive time. And, in some cases of cartoon collections (I have   
   been told), force the viewer to explicitly select each cartoon -- to   
   discourage the kiddies, who shouldn't be viewing them anyway.   
      
   2, Do censor, and pretend nothing happened.   
      
   I believe it was Disney who, in one of its cartoon collections aimed   
   at a specific decade or so (I am told, I never bought a copy) used a   
   later version of "The Three Little Pigs" because the Wolf in the one   
   from that time frame was a Jewish stereotype. Maltin (IIRC, it was   
   Maltin) had a feature discussing the cartoons, and /he/ showed clips   
   of the original Wolf, stereotypes and all.   
      
   I have somewhere a clip (not playable using the obvious resources of   
   Win 11, although something may exist that can play it) of the white   
   lady unicorn attended by two small black unicorn maids. This was   
   apparently cut from the re-release which, when I saw it in the   
   theater, showed me that I had no actual interest in watching that sort   
   of thing. There truly is no accounting for taste.   
      
   Pecos Bill got off lightly. On a different film's DVD, the entire   
   Hatfield/McCoy sequence was cut. Or so I read at the time. Whether the   
   recent re-releases actually /are/ the originals or not is unknown to   
   me. Disney, of course, cannot be trusted in this matter.   
      
   There are, incidently, entire DVDs of cartoons that are no longer   
   acceptable in polite society. At least, that is what they claim; I've   
   never bought one because the quality of 3rd party cartoon disks is   
   generally deplorable.   
       
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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