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   On 2025-08-10 15:48:38 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   > On 9 Aug 2025 17:34:59 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan )   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >  are so smart they don't have to actually know anything>   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
      
   The same happens with books. Authors like Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton   
   have had their stories re-edited to remove the "incorrect" bits.   :-\   
      
   Often such stupidity is due to adults looking at kids' videos and books   
   and seeing something that the kids would never even think.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)