Cartoon Crazys - Banned & Censored

Starring:Cartoon Crazys
Studio: Winstar
Product Type: DVD

Description

See many of the cartoons which were censored and banned forever from theaters and television with a full description of why and copies of the laws and resolutions which made the screen safe for America.

Customer Reviews:

More Gems Mishandled by Cartoon Crazys.......2007-06-27

With such a great business plan-- buy up obscure, forgotten and public domain cartoons on the cheap and rerelease them in themed anthologies-- you'd think it would be hard to go worng. Nearly all of Cartoon Crazys' collections though, show little affection or even respect for the source material: there's been no visual remastering, so the prints look as if they were taped from afternoon "Cartoon Carnival" programs (which they may well have been), and irritating, out-of-place souond effects have been added to "enhance" the soundtrack. You might, for instance, hear a famillar effect from the Hanna-Barbera library injected into a much earlier toon such as an MGM or a Betty Boop.
If you are a serious collector and spot a title here that you really want, well, it might be worth it. Otherwise, don't waste your money.Cartoon Crazy's Fairy TalesCartoon Crazys: Goes to War

Anti-Feminist Angle?.......2007-06-10

Excellent and intriguing. Several of these can't be found anywhere else. The reasons for some of them being banned are, as the text says, really hard to understand today. "Scrub Me Mama w/a Boogey Beat" is especially interesting. Obviously, black people( mostly men) are portrayed in ugly stereotyping, ie. slow and lazy. But there are some other things going on, too. I noticed that in all of 'Lazy Town', one of the few people working, including animals and fish, was the washing LADY. Into this town comes a couple of very different black people, a riverboat captain(a prestigious occupation) and a boogey woogey singer(a member of the new Harlem Renaissance Group) I can't help but wonder if the real reason it was banned was because the black girl singer is sexy, hip, beautiful, well dressed AND a dynamite singer. She took the washer woman image and turned it upside down and had fun with it. Maybe I'm wrong but maybe the real reason was white audiences could not accept a black person that way. I thought she did a great job of blowing stereotypes out of the water. Why not show it, unless someone was afraid it would give black people or any outsider 'the wrong idea'

Hidden Treasures.......2007-03-19

This is a real discovery! A collection of lost, hidden, and obscured gems! Each cartoon is pretty shocking - even by today's standards! This dvd is well worth the money!!!

For collectors only........2007-01-09

There are better collections out there if you want high quality wartime cartoons. These look more like rejects, with the exception of the Snafu cartoons.

C'mon it's a cheapy!.......2006-10-10

Okay, there are a lot of grumbling reviewers out there complaining about this not being re-mastered visually and some sound being re-masterd inappropriately. If they all paid 20 bucks for this DVD, then I guess they can be upset, but get one used or off the dollar store rack and you can't go wrong.

Next, banned = not shown on t.v. or cable these days
because of racial,sexist,ethnic stereotypes and other presently not-politically-correct things. We wouldn't want the kiddies taking any of this seriously,now would we? Nah, they're safer watching MTV and reality shows like World's Worst Drivers etc.

Why get this? If you collect moving pictures or cartoons from bygone eras, it's a cheap edition to your collection. It's also a snapshot of the times. Aside from the SNAFU's, which were shown as "educational" material to the armed forces (loose lips sink ships etc.), the others were shorts shown in cinemas before the main attraction and weren't considered out of line by the general public at the time. No, it isn't stellar or mindblowing, and probably only interesting to some people.

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