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. 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.