Disney And Censorship - A Match Made In Hell

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I tend to be a militant figure regarding the original visions of film makers. If the widescreen version is the way that the film makers wanted the movie to be seen, then widescreen is the way that the movie should be seen - period. But one other part of me that tends to be militant is my disgust in the hypersensitivity of the American public as well as claiming the safety of our kids as an excuse to remove everything that parents find objectionable.

Unfortunately, the Walt Disney company now is succumbing to the latter - and we need to tell them to stop it.

One of the many facts about the U.S. is that historically minorities have not been treated well - slavery, American Indians, and so forth. This has been reflected in many ways, especially in Hollywood. For better or worse, however, those "injustices" for lack of a better term have become a part of Americana.

They have helped to define who we were and who we are; and they also act as a lesson to future generations that historically we as a country once believed certain things that many (hopefully) no longer believe. If we do not learn from the past, we are condemned to repeat it.

Sadly, there are many forces who are attempting to rewrite history and "protect our children" in movies and film rather than preserve the way that movies or cartoons were originally created.

I recently bought The Fantasia Anthology, and now I understand why one of the segments was so grainy and gave me the impression that something had been done to alter the original version.

The ironic part is, on the DVD cover of the Fantasia case says, "Walt Disney's Original Uncut Version". I have it here with me and I can see the line, how can they say this?

It is simply untrue because they did crop one segment in order to prevent accusations of racism.

According to the website,
These scenes occurred almost entirely in The Pastoral Symphony segment and involve black centaur servants assisting white centaurettes

What hypocrites!

Now I feel like I've wasted some good dough on this box-set because of a stupid change they made to it just because it was "considered" racist.

Plus, this is a problem because in the movie, Fantasia. The animation segments are done by a bunch of animators, storytellers, musicians and more. It is their INTENTION to show the segments they want to, not Disney's.

Walt Disney must be rolling in his grave if he ever find out what the Disney corporation has done to destroy so many brilliant artistic films by chopping it all up so that they can look "clean".

The Disney corporation, their hands are filthy and covered with blood because they care about themselves, not the artists.

Do you think it would had been perfectly acceptable if the canvas of Lisa Mona's smile was digitally altered?

I think the answer is a big no if the intention was to claim that it is in its original form when it isn't. That is the problem with Disney, they keep releasing movies on DVDs with the "Gold Collection" labels on them when in fact they digitally altered many of them.

Hopefully, I'll be able to see that movie, Song of the South someday. I know it's currently buried as we speak. Disney was so ashamed of it since it has been said that it contained racist themes even though the main character was black. *shrugs*

How are we supposed to learn from the past?

Please click on the link below to read the full article, and I was surprised to find about how they also censored Tom & Jerry cartoons!

http://www.widescreen.org/commentaries/2001_04_apr.shtml
 
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