[Noisebridge-discuss] Banned Disney cartoons

[aestetix aestetix]

Thanks Sai, this is fascinating stuff.

I actually used to distribute a CD full of banned cartoons, before Youtube
came along. There are a number of themes which are now considered really
offensive, and deliberately kept off the air. Comedy Central used to run a
special called "June Bugs" where they would show off a bunch of banned
Warner Bros cartoons, like "Herr meets Hare" and "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips".


Actually, if you watch old cartoons, like Betty Boop and Popeye, they are
usually loaded with all kinds of what we now call racial propaganda. A lot
of it is very cultural, and we can look at how much our culture has changed
since then.

As far as modern propaganda goes, I think there is lots of it, but it's
harder to tell because we're *in* the culture that is producing it, and we
generally take a side. I encourage you especially to look at episodes of
South Park and other shows that came out right after 9/11.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:

> For those of you who enjoyed Fox's showing of the Academy award
> winning (and since suppressed for being obvious propaganda) _Der
> Fuehrer's Face_ @ 5MoF, you may be interested to know that there are
> several others available online.
>
> See:
> http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/banned-cartoons/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fuehrer%27s_Face
>
> You can find all of them - among others - quite easily on Google Video
> and Youtube by searching for 'banned disney' or 'duck nazi' e.g., or
> the name of the episode if you know it; there were several others made
> as part of this same war propaganda effort. There are many other
> themes as well, if you're interested, such as cartoons quite poorly
> depicting black people.
>
> They are interesting, at least, as examples of how much culture has
> (seemingly) changed to view such formerly common and acceptable
> portrayals as unacceptably racist. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that
> we *didn't* get something like this about Arabs in the whole middle
> east war drumming of recent years (though it certain came up plenty in
> radio and TV "dialogues").
>
> - Sai
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