Dirty Skunk
09-12-2007, 04:37 PM
Hello, all you happy people. Long time reader, first time poster. I consider myself something of a golden age cartoon fan, though I clearly don't possess the same knowledge as most of you and I certainly haven't seen anywhere near as many cartoons as you have. So one of the many ways in which I get to see more cartoons is to buy them on DVD.
I live in the UK, and the Looney Tunes Golden Collection volume four came out not too long ago, and I bought it, having enjoyed the first three sets (the first one contained many old favourites, while volumes two and three featured many cartoons that I had never seen before, so those particularly appealed to me. However, I soon learned, disappointingly that the region two version of LTGC4 contains only 53 shorts instead of the 60 on the US version.
After doing some research, I discovered that the following seven cartoons were omitted from the set:
Disc 1: Southern Fried Rabbit
Disc 2: You're An Education, Plane Daffy, Porky the Fireman, The Stupid Cupid
Disc 3: Here Today, Gone Tamale
Disc 4: The Sour Puss
Now, of these seven, I've only seen The Stupid Cupid, and that was so long ago. Does anybody here know any reason why these aforementioned cartoons were taken off the set?
Could they be in some way offensive? Personally, I'm not too sure, because what I remember of Stupid Cupid didn't seem particularly outrageous or potentially offensive. Plus, there's a disclaimer at the beginning of my DVDs stating that some of the cartoons may contain ethnic or cultural stereotypes, so why would they censor or remove cartoons based on what they said in their disclaimer?
Or maybe it's a capacity issue? Except I would have assumed that region 2 discs have the same capacity as region 1, so obviously not. And if it was an issue with space, they could have removed some of the special features, rather than cutting down on the main feature.
Anyway, I can't for the life of me fathom why my set only has 53 shorts instead of 60. Anybody else experienced this? Also, would anybody be kind enough as to guide me to a website where I can see/download these cartoons? (Yeah, yeah, sod the copyright issue, if the cartoons were important to them, they'd have included them on my discs. :p)
I live in the UK, and the Looney Tunes Golden Collection volume four came out not too long ago, and I bought it, having enjoyed the first three sets (the first one contained many old favourites, while volumes two and three featured many cartoons that I had never seen before, so those particularly appealed to me. However, I soon learned, disappointingly that the region two version of LTGC4 contains only 53 shorts instead of the 60 on the US version.
After doing some research, I discovered that the following seven cartoons were omitted from the set:
Disc 1: Southern Fried Rabbit
Disc 2: You're An Education, Plane Daffy, Porky the Fireman, The Stupid Cupid
Disc 3: Here Today, Gone Tamale
Disc 4: The Sour Puss
Now, of these seven, I've only seen The Stupid Cupid, and that was so long ago. Does anybody here know any reason why these aforementioned cartoons were taken off the set?
Could they be in some way offensive? Personally, I'm not too sure, because what I remember of Stupid Cupid didn't seem particularly outrageous or potentially offensive. Plus, there's a disclaimer at the beginning of my DVDs stating that some of the cartoons may contain ethnic or cultural stereotypes, so why would they censor or remove cartoons based on what they said in their disclaimer?
Or maybe it's a capacity issue? Except I would have assumed that region 2 discs have the same capacity as region 1, so obviously not. And if it was an issue with space, they could have removed some of the special features, rather than cutting down on the main feature.
Anyway, I can't for the life of me fathom why my set only has 53 shorts instead of 60. Anybody else experienced this? Also, would anybody be kind enough as to guide me to a website where I can see/download these cartoons? (Yeah, yeah, sod the copyright issue, if the cartoons were important to them, they'd have included them on my discs. :p)