When I was writing an article “The New Adventures of Charlie Chan” series some years back, I incorporated material on “The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan,” and was told by one of the animators that in a scene where some characters (cops or villains, I don’t remember now), the guns they were using to shoot with had to be erased and replaced by brooms because of network policy.
I once knew a woman whose job it was to edit cigarettes out of photos that were to be used in textbooks for teaching French language.
Cigarettes were ubiquitous in photos of everyday French life.
One of our local UHF TV stations used to run Charlie Chan Theater on Saturday afternoons. Old Charlie Chan films from the 30’s and 40’s.
Even back then they were under pressure from the Political Correctness Police. They would edit out one particular character who was thought to be too insultingly stereotypical by the standards of the day.
In one of these films this was the character who discovered whodunit. The station edited him out and the film ended with the mystery still unsolved.