[quote author=gigantikok link=board=99;num=1067894481;start=20#22 date=11/06/03 at 23:15:44]
There are some Looney tunes cartoons that still make my jaw drop. I just watch them and can't believe how different the culture was back in the 40's and 50's. I have a collection of uncensored cartoons and it seems like they let anything slip through the radar. What particularly comes to mind is a cartoon where Bugs Bunny is being chased by Elmer Fudd playing like a Mountie or something. He is chased around in the snow and such. Well, at the end, Elmers asks Bugs "Do you have any last wishes?" Bugs says,"I wish... I WISH... *music starts* I wish I were in Dixie, hooray, hooray!" What proceeds is a bizarre dance number in which they all put on black face an play banjos!!! Man, it's pretty surreal. Check out the picture:
Another cartoon that is has been banned due to today's standards is a cartoon where Bugs Bunny floats over to Japan in a crate during World War 2 and pretty much kills the entire Japanese Army on his own. The caricatures and racist comments are outrageous!
And, of course, many violent snippets that are edited out of most of the old cartoons.
God, we live in such a different society, now.[/quote]
Strangely enough Gigantikok, that wasn't the only one that had some of those black overtones. In one other cartoon with Yosemite Sam, bugs tries to get past Sam by impersonating a slave. Then there was a cartoon that was in the planning stages, but never got around to being made called
Coal Black and the Sebben dwarves. I know this because I have a book with sketches of it, and to say the least, was shocked.