
They were the only cartoons in this package not to be featured in the LaserDisc series The Golden Age of Looney Tunes. in 1986, he vowed that he would not distribute or air any cartoons from the Censored Eleven. When Ted Turner obtained the rights to the pre-1950 Warner Bros. Some stations even owned syndication rights to "a few they consider racially stereotypical", but never ran them. cartoons never had the same type of censorship as first-run networks such as ABC and CBS did for the cartoons. They make some cuts that are so arbitrary and stupid, you can't believe it." Independent stations that once ran the syndicated Warner Bros. cartoons: "I don't like to see the films cut at all. In 1983, director Chuck Jones commented on the television censorship of the Warner Bros. Unlike feature films, which were routinely censored in the script, the animated shorts were passed upon only when completed, which made the producers exceptionally cautious as to restrictions. during its most active period even sometimes had censorship problems more complex in some respects than those of features. They have turned up, however, on low-cost VHS and DVD collections. once (in 2010, see below for more details) since their withdrawal. Since 1968, these shorts have not been officially broadcast on television and have only been exhibited theatrically by Warner Bros. The ban has been continued by UA and the successive owners of the pre-August 1948 Looney Tunes/ Merrie Melodies. UA owned the distribution rights to the Associated Artists Productions library at that time, and decided to pull these 11 cartoons from broadcast because the use of ethnic stereotypes in the cartoons, specifically African stereotypes, was deemed too offensive for contemporary audiences. that have been withheld from syndication in the United States by United Artists (UA) since 1968. The Censored Eleven is a group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons originally produced and released by Warner Bros. Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land Jungle Jitters All This and Rabbit Stew JSTOR ( March 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.


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