Tom & Jerry Spotlight Collection Censored!

[Thad]

The following scenes have been edited on the Tom & Jerry DVD due out this Tuesday:

"The Milky Waif" - Jerry and Nibbles using shoe polish to disguise as black mice.



"The Truce Hurts" - A meat truck splashes mud on Spike, Tom, and Jerry, leaving them in blackface.

"The Little Orphan" - Tom gets burnt by a candle and turned into a 'pickaninny'.




WB is going to make up for this, as they have been advertising the set as uncut. Buyers will be able to exchange the edited disc for a completely unedited one by mail with Warner Home Video. Jerry Beck will have more information on the situation later this week.


-Thad

[corey3rd]

honestly this is the better route for Warners since parents who don't want the blackface moment won't be sending in their DVDs.

[J. B. Warner]

I was afraid of this...still, at least you can exchange them at no extra cost (at least, it better not be, aside from the postage).

[cabe624]

Yeah, Jerry told me about this a few weeks ago. I was somewhat angry because it seems that they didn't do enough checking ahead of time to make sure that the cartoons would be uncut. Thankfully, WB will be offering an exchange program.

[MF TOON]

I'm curious... does this mean that a follow-up Vol. 2 will purposefully NOT be LABELED as UNCUT in order to avoid possible p.c. contraversial material and save from a situation like such in which a disc replacement policy would have to be organized, or does it mean that WB will be more efficient in their future production efforts??

[Dan Porceddu]

Originally Posted by MF TOON

I'm curious... does this mean that a follow-up Vol. 2 will purposefully NOT be LABELED as UNCUT in order to avoid possible p.c. contraversial material and save from a situation like such in which a disc replacement policy would have to be organized, or does it mean that WB will be more efficient in their future production efforts??

Probably the latter... All indications are that the censoring of these three cartoons was a mistake that was caught after the discs were produced... Otherwise other cartoons like "Flirty Birdy" would also be censored as well.


-Dan

[Leviathan]

From what I've heard, The Transers for the Tom and Jerry Cartoons on the Set aren't all that great either (as in unrestored). What's With Warner Bros. and Paramount using Disney's (on Fantasia and Walt Disney Treasures: Wave 1) Bill-Censored-DVD's as uncut syndrome all of a Sudden?

Insted of Fruitlessly Chasing JAnet Jackson and Howard Stern, The FCC could be Doing it's Job and fining these companies for False Advertising

[Merrytoon]

So... Does this mean that eventrually we'll be able to buy the uncut set in stores, or is the only wat to get it to buy the censored set and to send it in? Because if that's the case it's not even worth the hassle to me.

[wundermild]

Replacing the censored DVD for an uncensored one, for anyone who asks for it ... whatever the benefits of this procedure are, I believe people like me who live outside the R1 countries are the ones who'll get stuck with this. Will the company replace my DVD I'll send to them from Germany? I very much doubt so. (Besides, mailing the piece across the Atlantic, only to mail it back and receive the ersatz DVD also across the Atlantic ... somehow makes little sense to me.)

Perhaps there are fellow GAC members who are willing to help out?

WW

[Kaleido]

Originally Posted by Leviathan

Insted of Fruitlessly Chasing JAnet Jackson and Howard Stern, The FCC could be Doing it's Job and fining these companies for False Advertising

I'm not sure what or how the FCC could do anything about this and I've noticed that it's gone out of its way to make it look like it's doing something without really doing anything - note that the FCC is going after Clear Channel for Howard Stern despite the fact that its financial stake in his show is minimal while Infinity Broadcasting, which does have a major stake in Stern, has been left untouched, but at least Warner Home Video is doing something immediately, which is more than what we can say about Paramount with its "uncut" Ren and Stimpy set.

So should I cancel my order with Amazon.com (which won't arrive until November because it's supposed to ship with my Golden Collection 2 set) or can I expect Warner Home Video to recall the sets from retailers as well and in a reasonable amount of time?