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DVD version Edited...


The "controversial" (as commentary track guest Jerry Beck puts it) phrase "under God" has been removed from Porky's Pledge of Allegiance at the end of the film on the new WB Golden Collection DVD. It was left in, however, in the Lincoln's Gettysburg Address excerpt just a minute or so before. Don't know if they missed it, or left it in because of "historical context" or something like that. Not a single frame or word of these classic cartoons should be touched, imo. I guess this doesn't bode well for the inclusion of Robert Clampett's brilliant but un-PC (to understate!) Coal Black an de Sebben Dwarfs on a future Golden Collection...

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There was no "Under God" in the Pledge Of Allegiance back in 1939......It was added later......look it up.

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Yeah, I saw this cartoon back in the early seventies when I was still in grade school and Porky did not use the words "Under God".

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The version of the pledge that was in the picture, was there since 1924. Yet there were changes to the pledge prior to 1924 as well.

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