Some are even older. Especially the Tom and Jerry Cartoons with the big fat black female servant running the house hold are pretty old. For political correctness they removed her and replaced her with a white petite lady and a white upper class gentlemen. When you see only legs of the black woman: VERY OLD. Only legs of white Dudes: Reworked in the 1960/1970. No Humans at all or humans with faces: 1980ths and ongoing.
Funny thing, the very old versions got outright bought by public German Television. They OWN them. They never bought the reworked versions though. But the private stations can cheaply licence the reworked version.
So the private TV is always showing the “White-Washed” version and the public TV always the “Black-Servant” version. Not like anyone cares.
Oh, I also found out that public TV seems to hold the rights to a lot of other older shows and they locked them deep into their darkest vaults. Some are so toxic they don’t even dare to mention them (Lets start with Speedy Gonzales, continue with Pepe Le Pew and then it gets really weird)
I also learned that public TV around here holds the rights to the first season of Sailor Moon (they don’t show it anymore for sexist female display), all Episodes of Captain Future (too militaristic) and Hong Kong Phooey (too violent). And then you learn public TV financed and broadcasted a porn movie named “The Pornograph”…
Some are even older. Especially the Tom and Jerry Cartoons with the big fat black female servant running the house hold are pretty old. For political correctness they removed her and replaced her with a white petite lady and a white upper class gentlemen. When you see only legs of the black woman: VERY OLD. Only legs of white Dudes: Reworked in the 1960/1970. No Humans at all or humans with faces: 1980ths and ongoing.
Funny thing, the very old versions got outright bought by public German Television. They OWN them. They never bought the reworked versions though. But the private stations can cheaply licence the reworked version.
So the private TV is always showing the “White-Washed” version and the public TV always the “Black-Servant” version. Not like anyone cares.
Oh, I also found out that public TV seems to hold the rights to a lot of other older shows and they locked them deep into their darkest vaults. Some are so toxic they don’t even dare to mention them (Lets start with Speedy Gonzales, continue with Pepe Le Pew and then it gets really weird)
I also learned that public TV around here holds the rights to the first season of Sailor Moon (they don’t show it anymore for sexist female display), all Episodes of Captain Future (too militaristic) and Hong Kong Phooey (too violent). And then you learn public TV financed and broadcasted a porn movie named “The Pornograph”…