"Dangerous Extremist" Baron on Nostr: Even before streaming and the bullshit "muh harmful content" trigger warnings, ...
Even before streaming and the bullshit "muh harmful content" trigger warnings, studios did engage in very subtle censorship of their older cartoons by way of redrawing or redubbing characters that would've been seen as politically incorrect.
A good example is the very first Tom & Jerry cartoon from 1940, Puss Gets the Boot. In the original version, the black mammy talks in a good ol' fashioned Southern Negro accent - complete with her mispelling "out" as O-W-T. However, in the version that I taped off Cartoon Network around 1998 and rewatched at least 30 times as a kid, her voice had been completely redubbed making her sound like a modern smug HR black woman. For many years I naturally assumed that's how she always sounded until I saw the original version about a decade ago.
I've also heard that there was another version where they completely whitewashed the mammy to make her an Irish maid. However, I have never seen that version and no clips of it are on YouTube.
https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1555607693819908098/xlarge/
A good example is the very first Tom & Jerry cartoon from 1940, Puss Gets the Boot. In the original version, the black mammy talks in a good ol' fashioned Southern Negro accent - complete with her mispelling "out" as O-W-T. However, in the version that I taped off Cartoon Network around 1998 and rewatched at least 30 times as a kid, her voice had been completely redubbed making her sound like a modern smug HR black woman. For many years I naturally assumed that's how she always sounded until I saw the original version about a decade ago.
I've also heard that there was another version where they completely whitewashed the mammy to make her an Irish maid. However, I have never seen that version and no clips of it are on YouTube.
https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1555607693819908098/xlarge/