What's the cleanest edit ever?

[Brandon Pierce]

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What's the cleanest edit you've ever seen in a cartoon? Here are some of my votes.

Hare Do (the smoking scene, not the part where Bugs bashes Elmer on the head with an umbrella).
Dough for the Do-do (scene with Al Jolson duck).

[Jack]

"Ballot Box Bunny", I didn't even know the Russian Roulette gag existed.


Jack:D

[Greg Method]

I would probably say something like the suicide reference being removed in "Martian Through Georgia." As it is with some cuts, you wouldn't notice something missing unless you *knew* something was missing.

[Pietro]

"Freddy the Freshman" - I never noticed the edit until it was brought up on the Censored Cartoons page.
"I Like Mountain Music" - I never knew the Zulu scene existed until I saw Brian's Early Years page.
"Goopy Geer" - I never knew "Yes sir, Yes, sir!" Gorilla waiter scene existed until I saw the "Goopy Geer" RealVideo on Goopy Geer's website.
"Buddy's Showboat" - It seemed like Nick never did anything to this cartoon - at the beginning "Swami River" part.
"Porky at the Crocadero" - When this aired on Nick it seemed like there were no edits - until I saw this on CN.
"Rookie Revue" - I never noticed the edit until it was brought up on the Censored Cartoons page.

-Pietro

[billyjoelfan]

HARE BRUSH (ABC)

BIG HOUSE BUNNY (CN)

A BRID IN A GULTY CAGE (CN)

[J Lee]

The edit on the African native chacatures from "We, The Animals, Squeak" is very good, because Stallings music for "Little Playmate" picks up at the exact same spot it ended at before the gag with the mice carrying the cheese out of the refigerator. The animation loop of their walk picks up in almost the exact same place as well, so it's tough to see unless you do a frame-by-frame advance of the videotape.

[Patrick McCart]

The edit in Martian Through Georgia is pretty sloppy in my opinion, the freeze-frame is really obvious...since it's pixelized.

The edit Big House Bunny is really clean...no audio dropouts or video jumps...

September In The Rain seems cleanly edited, but the 3 minute running time gives away the censorship.

The editing of the original lines in A Wild Hare and Bugs Bunny Rides Again is really clean and isn't obvious.

The cleanest edit, IMO, would have to be the edit in Detouring America...the edit of the Big Indian is seamless...although pointless (How are oversized Native American children offensive?)

The sloppiest edit, besides Drip-Along Daffy's edit, would have to be the edit in Hare Ribbin'....That shouldn't even happen to a dog! *yeowch!*

[PorkyandDaffy]

The edit in BIG HOUSE BUNNY is actually kinda sloppy. There's obviously a fake-fade out after Sam grunts "I hate him", then we see Sam walking back into the Warden's office, but we never heard the Warden call him back into the office, so we don't know why same walked back in.

Off of the top of my mind, here are some clean edits I've seen:

THE MOUSE-MERIZED CAT (1946): The Rochester edit. You can't even tell anything's missing.

DROOPY'S GOOD DEED (1951): The "Hey Blackie, anymore babes in there" line was very cleanly edited. The fake-fade out that occurs before that line looks natural.

MAGICAL MAESTRO (1952): Where does the Chinaman gag take place? I can tell any signs of an edit (other than the anvil/blackface gag).

THE REBEL WITHOUT CLAWS (1962): Couldn't tell that they edited out Tweety's "damn".

[Greg Method]

Where was "Martian Through Georgia" shown with a freeze frame edit? I've only seen it on television with the suicide part snipped and it goes right along, nothing looking out of place or tweaked.

"Big House Bunny," IMO, has never been edited properly. When Merrie Melodies showed it, they at least tried to keep the story continuity together by dubbing in another "Schultz!!" from the Warden right before Sam is hung. As already mentioned, the Cartoon Network version is pretty hastily-cut.

Then for those that remember, "The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special" even replaced the hanging by turning the platform Sam was standing into a spring-loaded ejecting plank.

A scene like that can't really be edited well, though in the first place. The joke just happens with very little lead-in. And there isn't really a stopping point in that scene like at the end of "Ballot Box Bunny" before the Russian Roulette game. It's going to look weird no matter how it's done.

Fortuntately it was released onto home video uncut.

And although I hate the fact that it was done, I did find it interesting the way "Hillbilly Hare" was edited for ABC to remove the whole "Grab a fence post, hold it tight" verse from the squaredance.

[Thad Komorowski]

Originally posted by PorkyandDaffy
MAGICAL MAESTRO (1952): Where does the Chinaman gag take place? I can tell any signs of an edit (other than the anvil/blackface gag).

The Chinaman gag takes place before the "Clamentine" song. After he throws away two rabbits out of his hands, the magician/conductor throws a cymbal on Spike's head, and he turns into a Chinese stereotype, singing in fake Chinese. He then rips the Chinese clothes off and starts singing again.

-Thad

[Brandon Pierce]

But, anyway I wouldn't mind seeing it uncut. In fact today @ Holloywood Video I found the Tex Avery tape with Magical Maestrol on it.