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To: lowbridge

There are also a number of “banned” cartoons on youtube. Bugs fighting the japs and so forth. It’s very entertaining, not because of the subject...just that they were allowed to broadcast it.


6 posted on 04/28/2008 10:32:08 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: Malsua
There are also a number of “banned” cartoons on youtube. Bugs fighting the japs and so forth. It’s very entertaining, not because of the subject...just that they were allowed to broadcast it.

Indeed, I grew up in the 1970s watching Little Rascals shorts on tv. Little did I know how censored they were.

When they were released on video, I was stunned to find scenes in the shorts that I never saw while watching them on tv.

For example, in the short Anniversary Trouble, Spanky is appointed treasurer of the gangs new club and is held responsible for holding onto the gangs club funds. Those funds are accidentally taken by Spanky's father. Spanky needs to leave the house to chase after him, but the club members are outside, wanting their money back since the club broke up. Spanks tries a variety of ways to leave the house, one of which he puts on blackface and tries to masquerade as buckwheat. This scene was edited out of the tv reruns.

And the short The Man From Borneo. That was was censored in its entirety. I do not recall that one airing on tv EVER. I learned of its existence from the Leonard Maltin book. I finally saw it when it was released on video.

17 posted on 04/29/2008 8:02:00 AM PDT by lowbridge ("I can't wait to see what he stands for." - Susan Sarandon on her support of Barack Obama)
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