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1953 - I’d say that almost checks out.
I believe that is a still from “Pet Peeve” which is from 1954. So 70 years.
https://youtu.be/YlLkVZBEqIA?t=4m47s
Video quality isn’t the best as it has been obviously tampered with to avoid copyright
The screenshot used in the post may be from a different version from the one I linked as the wall and Spike are more blue in the video but brown in the screenshot, but other aspects (fireplace, lamp, swords) all line up.
Edit: found the one in the screenshot
Exact same scene just a different colour. I’m assuming one was a theatrical release and the other was TV, but I’m not certain.
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Yeah I recently realized this while reviewing some missing episodes on my Plex server. Went to see if anything was available for download, and realized the original air dates were all the way back in the 1950’s.
(And also, it turns out finding decent downloads for shit this old is kinda hard. You have to request it, cuz nobody is idly seeding 70 year old shows.)
Didn’t Steamboat Willie premiere in the 20’s or something?
That cat must be long dead
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”…
