Censored Eleven
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The Censored Eleven is a group of eleven animated shorts in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical sereis that depict inappropriate stereotypes of minority groups, namely Africans and African Americans. Since 1968, the year of which they were withheld from syndication on U.S. television, these 11 shorts continue to not be aired officially on TV or released on home media; although eight of them were subsequently screened once in 2010, at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.
List
- Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land
- Sunday Go to Meetin' Time
- Clean Pastures
- Uncle Tom's Bungalow
- Jungle Jitters
- The Isle of Pingo Pongo
- All This and Rabbit Stew
- Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
- Tin Pan Alley Cats
- Angel Puss
- Goldilocks and The Jivin' Bears
Behind the scenes
- Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land, Jungle Jitters and All This and Rabbit Stew are the only cartoons in this group that exist in the public domain.
- An official DVD release of these shorts was originally planned, with Warner Bros. confirming such release sometime in 2011 through the Warner Archive Collection, at the New York Comic Con in October 2010.[1] Although animation historian Jerry Beck confirmed that the transfers had been done, he stated in 2016 that the DVD release was delayed indefinetly, due to the declining sales of DVDs.[2]
References
- ↑ "NYCC2010: Warner Archive to Release the 'Censored Eleven'". Toonzone (October 13, 2010). Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved on June 10, 2024.
- ↑ "WB Censored Eleven DVD". Toonzone (May 4, 2013). Retrieved on June 10, 2024. "None of those announced DVDs are coming out. Warner Bros. consides the DVD market dead for classic cartoons. There are no plans for further DVDs or blu-rays featuring classic cartoons. I am tackling to Warner Archive and maybe at some point they will release some older MGM or WB cartoons - but there are no plans by them to do so at this time."
