Dumbest edits.

[Brandon Pierce]

You can delete this thread if you want. I'm just seeing, how the polls work (the test bored isn't working).

[Brandon Pierce]

IT WORKS!

[Patrick McCart]

I think any edit is pointless.

What's the use of showing an edited September in the Rain when it's unnaturally short?

I think edited cartoons should be shown not at all.

I wonder if Chuck Jones has seen any of his cartoons in edited forms...I'd like to know what he thinks of the Drip-Along Daffy edit.

[Sogturtle]

Patrick is 100% (maybe even 110%) right! Any editing of a Warner's cartoon is flat-out ridiculous!!! The networks used to censor them, and that was despicable. Now Warners/CN has them all back and has the rare opportunity to show them the way their creators intended... And what is happening? Warner's/CN is engaging in even more embecilic, idiotic censorship than the networks ever did!!! Doesn't Warners have ANY backbone at all against these ORWELLIAN thought-police (they of the "POLITICALLY-CORRECT" mindset)???

Lastly, I doubt if Chuck Jones has seen much of his masterpieces being chopped and chewed... (Warners fired him (again) in the last few years!!!) BUUUUT as a guide to how Chuck likely feels, master comedian Stan Laurel was absolutely sickened by how television hacked his great Laurel & Hardy shorts to pieces. The pathetic results of artists not having control over their work...

[Bum]

Personally, I miss the "good ol' days" (as recent as ten years ago!) when a good percentage of these cartoons were syndicated to local stations (never any content edits here in Pittsburgh!).

As for Stanley, it's just too bad he didn't live long enought to see the beautifully restored Laurel & Hardy prints (with all the original opening titles put back in place) shown uncut on AMC a few years ago! I wonder if Hal Roach got to see 'em before he died???

[J Lee]

I'm just waiting for the Sunday when CN airs "Drip-Along Daffy" on the Chuck Jones show with the world's stupidest edit, which will prove once and for all the people compiling the show don't give a damn about being faithful the Jones' work, they just want to use his name to justify showing 30 minutes of cartoons (minus any biographical info or background details on the cartoons -- even The Tex Avery Show provided more info about the cartoons they show than the Jones show does, and the man is still alive, for chrissakes).

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Sogturtle
Warner's/CN is engaging in even more embecilic, idiotic censorship


See: 'anencephalic' (you will need either a medical or unabriged dictionary)

[Jack]

Well, my World Book dictionary simply states that "anencephalic" means "without a brain."

So, you mean brainless editing.


Jack:D

[Joe Tully]

I agree with you, Bum. CN is trying to convince us that it's only right that it deserves to be the home of all classic cartoons, but when you edit and ban them, that makes it difficult to believe you. I used to be able to see all of the Mammy's on good ole TV38, now they're very rare and revoiced, the same can be said of Droopy cartoons (such as Droopy's Good Deed) and plenty of Looney Tunes. I must have seen Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt at least once a week growing up, now it's too racist? Come on, CN, at least throw us a bone, give us some late night uncensored toon shows.

[Lonestarr]

It doesn't make any sense to cut that last bit from "Drip-Along Daffy". Not only is it the best line of the 'toon, it's also pretty innocuous (It's not as if they directly say what he'll be cleaning up). Now, editing the suicide and racial elements I can live with (although Tex Avery's "Magical Maestro" looks very disjointed in its abridged form), but this is inexcusable.

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by Lonestarr29
It doesn't make any sense to cut that last bit from "Drip-Along Daffy". Not only is it the best line of the 'toon, it's also pretty innocuous (It's not as if they directly say what he'll be cleaning up)


In the George Pal Puppetoon "Rhythm in the Ranks", a dog drinks out of a pail of "Invisible Paint", vanishes, then a few seconds later a tree on the edge of the scene also vanishes. I'm amazed they got away with that.