That's the battle: Studios can get nervous about revisiting their history by releasing DVD collections that includes the offending material ("Tom & Jerry: The Golden Collection Vol. Sure, cartoons like "Mouse Cleaning" live on the internet, as do other shorts with challenging content. It's hard to imagine either cartoon showing up on TV today, and there's lots of other cartoon content from the early to mid-20th Century that is no longer considered acceptable fare for mass audiences, especially children. That's what happened in 1948’s “ Mouse Cleaning,” when Tom briefly wears blackface, and in 1951’s “ Casanova Cat,” where Jerry ends up doing a minstrel act while in blackface.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |