Why These Cartoons Have Been BANNED For ALL TIME!

Today, we’re stepping back in time to explore these banned cartoons from the Golden Age of Animation.
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My name is Rich, and I'm dedicated to preserving and celebrating our cherished memories from the past. That includes classic TV shows, cartoons, movies, and pop culture. Although I specialize in content from the 1960s, I occasionally venture into other decades to explore timeless gems.
*All of the information in this video is readily available to the public on the internet
This episode: Written James Roberts and Narrated by Tom McKay
#classictv #classiccartoons #cancelledtvshows

[@richardcutts196]

I remember most of these cartoons from before they were removed and some from recent viewing online. I can see where they would be considered offensive, but many films of the time have the same problem. Almost the entire career of Al Jolson (star of the Jazz Singer, the first all talking movie from 1927) would be considered offensive.

[@CameronHuff]

I bought some DVD's for the early Popeye cartoons. Each DVD had a notice about how the cartoons reflected the era they were created in. It also said that there are offensive things in the cartoons, but ignoring them or cutting them would wouldn't solve the issue. Not sure why WB can't do that with these cartoons.

[@cesarbueno8822]

Out of all of the censored eleven cartoons he only talked about 7 of them here are the ones he forgot to talk about 1. Uncle Tom's Bungalow(1937) 2. Jungle Jitters (1938) 3. The Isle Of Pingo Pongo (1938) 4. Goldilocks & The Jivin' Bears (1944)

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

Yes, I thought something was missing. It didn't seem like the narrator had mentioned all of the "Censored Eleven" cartoons, but I figured, at first, that it was just my imagination and that I either hadn't counted correctly or I wasn't paying attention. Well, it obviously WASN'T my imagination.

[@COMPFUNK2]

Maybe he couldn’t find high-quality clips of those.

[@Monkofmagnesia]

If these were removed from tv in 1968 when I was six, how is it I can remember "Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs" as well as "Angel Puss" as if I watched them last week?

[@barttheraven]

VHS releases?

[@casbalt7763]

Some collections and animation educational programs show them some times maybe you saw one of these?

[@krononaut1]

This is a really great video. I enjoyed the content. My only criticism is that I think it's a bad idea to edit old cartoons. I preferred it when Warner Brothers would just leave a notice before the cartoon that some depictions were a product of their time.

[@melissacooper8724]

I remember they edited one of the Tom and Jerry cartoons by replacing Mammy Two Shoes with a teenage white girl.

[@kurtb8474]

The sentiments beginning at 7:40 are spot on. These are works of art, reflect a time in our history and should be conserved, not canceled. Racial sensitivity, and sensitivity about anything, is up to each of us as individuals. Don't like it? Don't watch it.

[@COMPFUNK2]

So if we see something on TV that is blatantly racist, we should just turn off the TV and not complain about it? What kind of logic is that?

[@IMBrute-ir7gz]

I'm 72 years old and I never once saw "Coal Black And The Sebben Dwarfs" on TV as a kid, or on video once VCR's came along. How the hell does a guy EVER get to see what has been described as a first-class example of animation?

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I feel people are way to sensitive today. I have seen a Warner Brothers cartoon where they had a character turn into a cigar store indian. There is aTom and Jerry one that does the same joke. I am part Native American but they don't offend me. I would not encourage them today but they don't offend me. It is because if they came out today people would scream

[@smallies7154]

they are remaking coal black with rachel zegler. its due out next year

[@Syncopator]

With regards to live action, it's often forgotten that the early minstrel show and movie casts were subject to segregation. This meant that it was actually illegal to mix white and African American actors in the same production. Therefore, if you wanted to depict an African American character in a required-to-be all white cast, blackface was the accepted methodology. That's not to say that what you ended up wasn't a caricature or stereotype, depending on how the white actor behaved in the part, but you couldn't use an African American actor to play a black character in an otherwise white cast. What's not clear to me is what happened with all-black cast productions, did they use "whiteface" to depict white characters? Or were there no such characters in those productions? Animation on the other hand, didn't have live actors so they weren't subject to the same restrictions. But since in a cartoon, pretty much characters of any race are caricatures, should it have been considered unacceptable to depict characters of a non-white race at all? Should all cartoon characters have been of ambiguous race, or all animals, or ???

[@sethkaicer319]

Everything is offensive to the weak-minded.

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

Really!? Stick around. I guarantee sooner or later someone will say or do something that will set all YOUR bells ringing. Only a matter of time.

[@bp39047]

Double standards are in full force eliminating freedom of expression and speech. Okay to offend me but not you. Rights for others but not you. Not the same US for many many decades. Most always change is for the worst with rare exceptions.

[@melissacooper8724]

I remember seeing "All This And Rabbit Stew" on a VHS copy called Greatest Cartoons of All Time. They could've replaced the African American kid with Elmer Fudd and it would still be good.

[@forevertoons9022]

I've seen all of these cartoons, and many many more just like them. To me, they're all classics and so much better than anything put out today. I've made sure to commit them all to disk, so as to not concern myself as to whether they'll disappear from the airwaves or internet. In viewing them all, I've never once looked at any of them as being insensitive or offensive. If folks get their feathers ruffled for this supposed racism, how is it that no one is upset if the white characters are portrayed as objects of humor or derision? Is that all ok, then?

[@themeanhornet1070]

Am waiting to see if the “Go Go Gophers” made the list.

[@Bullman422]

Walter Lantz could have his own list as well. I got the Woody Woodpecker collections 1+2 a few years ago and of course loved them. While most of Woody's cartoons might air with a few quick edits, it's the additional ones included on the disc that would easily get banned including the most infamous of the bunch Scrub me Mama with the Boogie Beat.

[@WillScarlet16]

Hey, 'Coal Black' could have been a LOT worse. Thank God they didn't make it a poison watermelon.

[@davidwesley2525]

Or Fried Chicken 😱😱😱

[@michaelsandford1015]

Were did you get them from

[@aspieangel1988]

The 1930’s were the darkest time in American history so I’m not surprised.

[@pookieizzy7]

Okay for one, everything deserves a parody. We already take enough reality in to last a lifetime so animation and comics are and where most went to escape from work and school. Now before anyone jumps on me about age, I'd watched cartoons like these back when Cartoon Network showed the classics and long before Boomerang was a thing. Another thing, anime had done the same thing around the 60s with Cyborg 009 and Osamu Tezuka's work. And what about Ralph Bakshi? He had done some risque animation before and I dug it. I didn't feel offended or triggered by none of it, why? IT'S ANIMATION!! Art imitates life and for what it's worth, I feel that no one should be afraid of something like this because parody helps appreciate art. Parody IS art. Yeah so, what is risk without reward, hell I'm a writer myself and I usually dip into the dark side of my thoughts and write them out. Animation got its dark side and instead of fearing it, embrace instead. It'll raise awareness of how deep its history goes.

[@Misfit-from-Zanti]

I'd sure like to watch those.

[@bwtv147]

It isn't just cartoons. "The Dukes of Hazzard" can no longer be shown on TV. Dolly Parton was pressured to change the name of her "Dolly's Dixie Stampede" show to "Dolly's Stampede". Warner Brothers stopped the sale of "General Lee" toys.

[@brianfretwell3886]

The Dukes of Hazard was shown on UK TV this year!!!!!!

[@bwtv147]

@@brianfretwell3886 Good! Then maybe there is hope in the USA.

[@schizoidboy]

One I didn't see listed here, I'm not sure if it's on the banned eleven, but it was "Bugs Bunny N- the -N-s" where Bugs ends up on an island in the Pacific and has a run in with the Japanese, including a sumo wrestler. I remember seeing it once a long time ago and never seeing it again on TV. Like everything else it was a product of it's time and wartime propaganda.

[@andrewyoung2796]

We need a narrator. Who likes this stuff

[@GLOBEREVIEWS]

Are any of these cartoons commercially available to buy?

[@daytripper9222]

I love those old cartoons. Of course everything is racist today.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

Not everything is considered racist today, only the things that ARE racist, like these cartoons. They may seem harmless to you, but films like this have had a devastating effect on racial relations in the United States, because they reinforced false notions that white Americans already had about people of color, that such people were "inferior" to the whites, that they were all dumb, lazy, and/or dishonest, and that they were basically simpleminded fools who couldn't handle having the same rights and privileges as white people, and therefore, didn't deserve any civil rights, which, in turn, meant that passing laws to guarantee racial equality and justice was, at best, a waste of time, or, at worst, a "crime against nature." Why do you think bigots believe in all these negative stereotypes of blacks and other minorities? It's because they've been brought up with these crazy ideas about non-white people right from the cradle, and one of the ways they've been brought up that way is by being exposed to cartoons like the ones shown in this video. People aren't born being prejudiced, they're TAUGHT to be that way right from the beginning, and then they pass their bigotry down through the future generations. It's like how moviegoers in 1915 reacted when they saw D.W. Griffith's silent movie epic "The Birth Of A Nation," which showed the innocent white people of the Post-Civil War South being terrorized and persecuted by vindictive blacks, who were portrayed as drunken, lust-crazed savages, and depicted the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic organization who subdue and disarm the blacks and restore order to the South. This film basically pandered to the fears of white people who were already suspicious of black Americans, making them believe the bogus history that was being shown, increasing hatred towards blacks, and convincing white Americans that it was a terrible idea to give black people equal rights and that they had to be controlled. One white man who saw the movie, for example, remarked that it made him "want to kill the first black man I see." In other words, racial stereotypes of different ethnic groups aren't as harmless as you think they are.

[@TodaysDante]

I'm pretty much against censorship, but some of these really would be hurtful to certain people. I understand that people need a thicker skin, but some of these are just awful, and you don't need to be a woke extremist to be offended. Maybe keep them for historical and educational purposes.

[@silva7493]

What was going on at 1:05? I couldn't figure it out. Thanks!

[@JGG1701]

Pants came off when he dived off the boat.

[@thisguy4505]

Video begins with the typical modern history re-write. Cartoons in the early 20th century were created for ADULTS. The idea that cartoons, including Bugs Bunny and the rest, are for children is a thoroughly modern idea.

[@billyhomeyer7414]

The Flinstones are based on the Honeymooners. Edit: Flintstones

[@godaistudios]

Define modern. I don't mean to be contrarian but the demographic switch to animating for children has been done for close to 60 years at this point. It was a key part of children's programming by the mid 1960s and many of those early series have been covered by this very YT channel. Since then, animation created primarily for adults has been the exception. It's too far back to call modern unless we want to start playing with word definitions. You can't really apply modern vs postmodern since that delves into philosophy and a different mindset that has no connection. I'm not sure there's a good word to use, but modern doesn't feel quite right here.

[@jesusnodal8948]

These cartoons can never be cancelled or forgotten!!!

[@michaelfried3123]

I was a kid in the 70's, so yeah I've seen all these classic cartoons more than once. Ah, the era before everyone's feelings got hurt....I yearn for thee.

[@EgoCityGamingUK]

It’s difficult with situations like this, both sides don’t want to empathise with the other. Many of us were kids when things like this came out, so these cartoons or others like them are part of our childhood, we watch them with family members who aren’t here anymore or while we played with friends. We dont see them as racist or derogatory because they really just remind us of childhood. At the same time those who didn’t live through this situation, they have no connection to these moments in time, they see only the cartoon for what it is on the very basic level. Outdated and offensive. People who remember them fondly are called racist even if that is the furthest thing from the truth. We need to accept that people want to remember their youth, or better times, and just as music brings us back to that one magical moment that is lost forever so do cartoons, shows or images. We cannot fight each other constantly over two sets of feelings, there is no winner and it spreads more hate. I wouldn’t expect these cartoons to be on today, but I don’t believe people should be punished for enjoying them.

[@ronm6585]

Thanks for sharing.

[@im_agine852]

90 second intro 😒

[@chrishanzek8930]

So these cartoons are considered unacceptable but what goes on in modern entertainment is not? That's called hypocritical.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

That depends on which "modern entertainment" you're referring to.

[@THE-X-Force]

Unsubscribed .. you know exactly why.

[@malcolmbrewis5582]

What happened to the oft quoted necessity of diversity.?

[@Lieutenant-E]

Who cares if some weak people are offended? I certainly don’t.

[@user-bu5ye3mr5w]

I don't know why it's automatically assumed that black people object to the old cartoons, plenty of black people understand and enjoy them.

[@michaelmickelsen5520]

The reference should be black since Elon Musk and Charlize Theron are both African-American and don't fit the context.

[@joanfisher4406]

These cartoons seem mild compared to the garbage kids are exposed to today.

[@THE-X-Force]

You mean like when kids walk by your house?

[@mikesilva3868]

😊🎉❤🎉😊🎉❤😊😊great

[@stevenfunderburg1623]

I'm no woke joker, but I can see from these comments, that at 53 I'm possibly going to be the whipper snapper in these comments 🤣😂😂🤣 You people are like "I remember these". What?! These cartoons were deleted in the sixties before I was born, and again, I am not woke, but are you actually surprised at that? Really? I think they should be available digitally for archivists and collectors, but in terms of the overall quality of the animation and story telling going on here, are you Shady Acres people trying to tell me these are National Treasures on the level of Fantasia? Or the Betty Boop cartoons from "Afternoon at the Bijou" on PBS? 😂🤣🤣🤣 I'm not trying to belittle you guys and I would like to be a bridge between you folks and Gen Z, but that will require everyone to sorta acknowledge the cringyness.

[@THE-X-Force]

... and also the *_BLATANT RACISM_*

[@stevenfunderburg1623]

@@THE-X-Force Well I was trying to be gentle 😂🤣🤣😂🤘🤘🤘

[@THE-X-Force]

@@stevenfunderburg1623 What you said was spot-on .. and _"Shady Acres people"_ made me literally 'laugh out loud' .. ☮

[@pdtoons9121]

Fantasia has been edited for racial insensitivity too. I was born in 1961 and grew up seeing a lot of these cartoons on TV.

[@stevenfunderburg1623]

@@pdtoons9121 Right, but that's my point. I mean the artistic merit and historical significance of Fantasia would be something where It would be worth preserving the artifact. Can you describe which sequence or images which were cut? Did you immediately notice when they quietly disappeared and is the effect jarring in terms of overall watchability ?

[@kakodae6298]

Dude… you need to replace ‘African American’, with African. Because those images are not only offensive to ‘African Americans’, but to all Africans all over the world! Unless your special consideration for American Africans over the rest of us is deliberate. ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@johntiggleman4686]

How about just Americans? I am bloody tired of all these hyphenated people groups. No more Latin-Americans, African-Americans, Polish-Americans, etc.

[@nyki7fykxtjxyi]

Too much soy in these comments.

[@Name-ps9fx]

So....the problem is that the cartoons made fun of Black behaviors and culture? Their behaviors and culture is as shown, we just shouldn't laugh at them? That's very much like today, when we see violent riots and mobs robbing stores, it's wrong for us to get mad and point fingers at a particular demographic who account for 90% of these crimes (indeed, of most crimes).

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

And what, may I ask, do riots, mobs, and robberies have to do with black people being offended by outdated and racist stereotypes of them, images that little or no basis in fact? Just where does it say that blacks are responsible for 90% of the crimes committed in this country? Where do you get your information? Is it because the majority of inmates in our jails and prisons are black or belong to some other non-white ethnic group? That proves nothing! It isn't because people of color are more likely to commit violent crimes, it's because they are more likely to receive stiff prison sentences, even for non-violent offenses, whereas white people are more likely to get lesser jail sentences, or suspended sentences, or be put on probation, or be let off with a fine or a warning, even for more serious crimes! Also, the law itself can be to blame sometimes. Look at the drug laws, for instance. Some states still have outmoded narcotics laws that mandate long prison terms even for possession of small amounts of dope. New York State, for example, still has its notorious Rockefeller Drug Laws, under which a lot of people who have never committed a violent crime in their lives have spent years in prison just for having one little marijuana "joint." Then there are the laws which state that those who possess or sell crack cocaine have to receive longer terms in prison than people who possess or sell powdered cocaine. But, because blacks are more likely to possess or sell crack cocaine than the powdered kind, and whites are more likely to sell or possess the powdered stuff, it is the BLACKS who spend more time behind bars on coke charges than the whites. These crazy laws were passed because of overreaction to the increase in narcotics use and the rise in crime that inevitably resulted. Too many conservative politicians, most of whom were white (or who had little or no interest in racial issues or civil rights) supported and used these laws to show everyone how "tough on crime" they were, which helped to get them elected or reelected, but after the elections, they did little or nothing about the main causes of crime, like poverty, unemployment, overcrowded and broken-down slums, unfair welfare systems, all of which effected people of color, thus contributing to the high crime rates among such people. Your attempt to justify prejudiced feelings towards black people by harping on the idea that they're more likely to be criminals is blatant RACISM, pure and simple! In fact, IT'S A COMMON THEME IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE KU KLUX KLAN! If you want to run down an entire race of people, consider this fact: the majority of SERIAL KILLERS ARE, OR HAVE BEEN, WHITE (BUNDY, GACY, DAHMER, STARKWEATHER, ETC)! Not only that, but MOST HATE CRIMES HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY WHITES AGAINST NON-WHITES! I guess that means all WHITE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS TOO, HUH?

[@gmg9010]

No matter how groundbreaking they were for animation at the time they are still racist. Though I do agree that they should be preserved to show America’s racist past.

[@stevefrasier8269]

Insensitive portrayal of ALL the characters -- they're CARTOONS, for phux-sake !!

[@douglasladowski6342]

Please stop using snowflake hyphenated words.