![]() ![]() (The black crows in Disney's ''Dumbo,'' one of them named Jim, have so far escaped the knife.) When Disney rereleased ''Fantasia'' in 1991, the studio deleted scenes of a pair of female centaurs drawn as African-American stereotypes. ''They just went ahead and chewed the things to pieces.''įeature films were also affected. ''The networks were lousy editors and lousy child psychologists, too,'' said Chuck Jones, 89, who directed many of the great Warner Brothers cartoons and three of the banned Bugs shorts. The cartoon directors were rarely consulted. ''The next year it might be back.'' Cartoon Network continues to edit selectively. ''One year, even a reference to a gun would be out of a cartoon,'' said Greg Ford, who produced Bugs Bunny cartoons in the 1980's and 1990's. ABC, which ran many of the Warner Brothers cartoons, cut scenes of violence, though with baffling inconsistency. But by the 1970's, as the same shorts came under new scrutiny as childen's programming, networks and studios began to cut and snip.ĭisney removed scenes of its Pecos Bill character smoking cigarettes. The early cartoons were created for adult audiences in movie theaters. But that just means you have to treat them with respect.''įor media companies, such raw expressiveness is cause for anxiety. It makes them seem charged and dangerous, and they are. They scare us because they cut deep, through all our layers of verbiage. ''We're prone to cartoon stereotyping because that's how we think, how we hold images in our heads,'' said the comic artist Art Spiegelman. Bugs's many encounters with French, Italian and Irish stereotypes will run uncensored.Ĭartoons have always played to our most unfiltered, primal selves. The 11 other banned cartoons, created between 19, contain similarly provocative images: bloodthirsty Native Americans, bumbling Japanese soldiers, savage Eskimos. The hunter, all massive lips and shuffling feet, is the sort of crude stereotype guaranteed to generate outrage today. It is a seven-minute short, produced in 1941, in which a black hunter stalks Bugs Bunny. ![]() Retrieved July 15, 2021.''All This and Rabbit Stew'' is one of 12 cartoons pulled from the Bugs festival, which began Friday night and ends tonight. " 'Tiny Toons' Reboot on HBO MAX will feature a 'Dumbledore'-esque Bugs Bunny, Return to Looniversity". ![]() " 'Tiny Toon Adventures' Reboot, Genndy Tartakovsky Series Ordered at HBO Max and Cartoon Network".
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