silly cuts to films

It's TEN times more offensive to remove what SOME people MIGHT be uptight or upset about. However, it's ALWAYS a valid and commendable thing to release and restore films the way they were MEANT to be seen. In their original version. The people at Disney have sold their souls to Satan in exchange for overt "family-friendliness" and hordes of cash-ins.

P.S.: I'm also a life-long NON-smoker who doesn't think that scene was a good idea originally, nor is it actually that cool. But that's the way the film was made and it's important to keep the movie the way it was created. However, there is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for what Disney did to Make Mine Music. That's just plain messed up. That was disturbingly wrong. Also, they changed Aladdin so that the lyrics in the song "Arabian Nights" wouldn't include a lyric about pirates/thieves "cutting off your ear if they don't like your face."

GEE, is Sony/Columbia-TriStar going to remove Demi Moore's nude scenes in Striptease if I say it messed up my kids for life? Is Warner Brothers going to take out every instance of Scarlet and the southerners calling that black woman "MAMMY" just because I say I think it's racist? Is Lions Gate going to distribute Will & Grace without the episode where Will calls Jack a fag? Can I have 20th Century Fox RECALL all their copies of Girl Next Door because I think the girl on the cover's showing too much skin?

We may not agree with what a lot of people call entertainment, and we may find it offensive. But NEVER should anything be censored so unjustifiably.


"Carol, one word of advice: send Cindy to a special school"

I agree. (I, too, believe the Native American scene in "Pecos Bill" is awkward and embarrassing.)

Speaking of editing, does anyone know if the "Johnny Appleseed" segment was edited? I used to have a Disney's "Johnny Appleseed" record that included his meeting with Native Americans. This encounter seemed to be one of the highlights of the story; however, when I recently viewed the DVD, there was no such scene. I was wondering if it originally existed in the cartoon.

I think "Johnny Appleseed" starts out very well but becomes somewhat mawkish as it progresses. Yet the cartoon Johnny is a perfect cutesy caricature of the tenor Dennis Day, who supplied the voices and sang the songs. (If you know of the comedian Jack Benny, you may remember that Dennis was a regular on his radio and TV shows in the '40s and '50s. And if you don't know of Jack Benny, I *recommend* listening to or watching his shows; they're wonderfully funny.)

Melody Time seems to be one of those movies that delightfully get better each time you watch them. It's marvelous 1940s sentiment.

Best,

Christine

I thought that only George Lucas would do this kind of things.

Shame on Disney!

Of course, for some reason, although Pecos Bill has to wear the patch, Joe Carioca is permitted to smoke up a storm, cigar firmly in hand in most all shots he's in.

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Charlie