Honestly, I can see why it was as well, but DVDs hold enough room to show it as a special feature. To label the DVD as uncut was a lie.
Not only that but if you watch the sequence released, you can clearly see the zoom they used to eliminate the character, while keeping the continuity of the soundtrack. Once you see it this way, it’s awful.
The funny thing is that in the 1970s when the movie was released to theaters without Sunflower, someone at Disney had to take it frame by frame and paint her out. No CGI. That took tons of effort.
How can I teach my children about the wrongs of our society if we sanitize everything?
It is also wonderfully instructive to see that the oft decried ‘political correctness’ is anything but a new phenomenon.