Comments on: Burnin’ Up

By: Dave Kirwan

Dave Kirwan — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Woo Hoo! I think you’ve inadvertantly stumbled onto a whole new exciting frontier of potentional censorship - the removal of all cartoons scenes featuring obsolete technologies that might baffle, confuse and/or disorient young, impressionable minds! An entire legion of film clipping guardians could constructively protect our youth by snipping shots of phonographs, movie projectors, horse drawn vehicles, fountain pens, television sets without remotes, pre-pantyhose nylons, encyclopedias (and, you know, all those paper and ink type books in general!) In fact, if we handle this right, we could virtually eliminate all that nasty story content, and reduce the films to their essentials — happy colorful portraits of famous copyrightable cartoon characters, suitable for marketing lunch boxes and Underoos. Sounds like we’re on to something the thought police can really sink their teeth into!

By: tom_w

tom_w — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I have two 8 year old nieces who love to watch the Tom & Jerry DVDs when I babysit them. We’ve seen “Texas Tom” (it has a smoking scene which is being cut in Britain) a number of times and the girls don’t seem to pay any attention to the cigarette rolling and smoking scene. The scene they don’t get is the one with the record player as they’ve never seen one and can’t imagine why there are 3 speeds.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t have anything to add that you haven’t already said, but yeah! Right on!