Posted on 10/31/2008 6:50:58 AM PDT by netmilsmom
I have had a few people comment on my homepage and the censoring of the Disney classic "Fantasia". I have found a link to this blog which reveals "Sunflower" in all her glory.
Andrea, the owner, took a recording from "The Wonderful World of Color" aired in the 50's and spliced the character back into the original film.
For a long time, Disney denied this character existed and released the 40th aniversary addition of Fantasia "uncut" but without Sunflower in the Pastoral Symphony.
Enjoy!
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I see why it was dumped down the memory hole - a black mammy servent and full frontal nudity.
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Honestly, I can see why it was as well, but DVDs hold enough room to show it as a special feature. To label the DVD as uncut was a lie.
Not only that but if you watch the sequence released, you can clearly see the zoom they used to eliminate the character, while keeping the continuity of the soundtrack. Once you see it this way, it’s awful.
The funny thing is that in the 1970s when the movie was released to theaters without Sunflower, someone at Disney had to take it frame by frame and paint her out. No CGI. That took tons of effort.
How can I teach my children about the wrongs of our society if we sanitize everything?
And the full frontal nudity was left, btw.
It is also wonderfully instructive to see that the oft decried ‘political correctness’ is anything but a new phenomenon.
an outline of breasts is full frontal nudity?
Maybe horsewomen don’t have breasts. The protuberances on their chests didn’t have nipples.
I noticed that too. Why didn’t they edit out the cherub’s buttcracks while they were burkha-izing the thing?
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