All this censorship started because we were okay with THIS
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Know why the old theatrical WB cartoons were so good?
Because Jack Warner didn't give a shit what his animation department did, as long as they made money. So they had very little interference from without or above, and were free to do whatever the hell THEY thought was funny. And so they did. Warner didn't even believe that Sylvester was Mel Blanc's way of making fun of him.
source: Hugh Fraser, lectures, ~1987
All the censorship started because we didn't gatekeep. Nothing survives unless you try to preserve it.
the old cartoons are so good
Yes they were. I still watch them when I come across them
I admit it sounded fair at the time.
But in hindsight, they are never satisfied. Ever.
So fuck 'em.
It sounds insane.
This right here.
Never was okay with this. Refused to give them money when it contained these fucking warnings.
Just made it so much easier to sail the high seas.
How long ago was this?
Fuck, I don't even remember say I saw something like this 15 years ago. It was after they got called out for censoring and were releasing them on DVD.
I was never ok with this. It was as condescending and dishonest when it started as it is now.
Who is "we"? i was never ok with this.
What's this "we" shit? You speaking French?
I guess you never heard of the Hays Code? Film has been censored since nearly the beginning, just nobody cared about racism then. They just didn't want you to be able to see tits or extreme violence.
Things that children shouldnt be seeing (well, I guess if theyre suckling they should be seeing lots of tits).
I prefer censorship over this dishonest malarkey.
I'd prefer neither.
I want to pull the same crap on the regressive left to censor their garbage NGL.
Good. Until we do to them what they do to us, but worse, they will never be dealt with.
Considering the blurriness of this screenshot, I don't remember seeing this "warning" before. Is this new?
It's on DVDs of the old Looney Tunes shorts.
I also couldn't find a sharper one, I looked.