But that's nothing.People have been complaining about Disney for as long as the company has been around. Then there's the highly inappropriate depiction of Native Americans in 1953's Peter Pan, in which Tiger Lily and her people act in ridiculously wild ways and speak in broken English, and are repeatedly referred to as "savages." And Lady and the Tramp from 1955 features an extended sequence depicting evil Siamese cats with thick accents and plenty of other offensive Asian stereotypes. They've been cut from subsequent releases of the movie. Included in that sequence are two servant centaurs named Sunflower and Otika who are clearly modeled after African-American stereotypes. The original cut of Fantasia from 1940 features a sequence based on Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, which features centaurs and other Greek mythical creatures getting ready for a feast. Too bad the rest of these examples aren't quite so easy to justify. However, some have pointed out that the crows are actually positive, since they're some of the only characters who help Dumbo and identify with his outsider status.
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Case in point: the leader of that group was originally called "Jim Crow" in the script. Where to start? In Dumbo from 1941, the baby elephant encounters a group of crows, who've since been identified as racist caricatures of African-Americans. In the end, the minister seems to have survived various video releases untouched, while the cover image had its conspicuous spire cut.
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One report claims that the artist, who was a freelance illustrator working on the cover and not a Disney employee, was simply in a rush to finish the cover art and stayed up late the night before the deadline to finish the job. Then, on the cover art of the original home video release for The Little Mermaid, many people have found what sure does look like an important part of the male anatomy hidden in a spire on an underwater castle. Disney's Tom Sito said that what looks like the guy's little minister is actually his knee. But when the evil Ursula tries to trick Eric into marrying her, the minister officiating the wedding seems to be.excited by the impending nuptials. The Little Mermaid from 1989 doesn't seem like it'd have much room for any naughty bits, especially since all of the movie's undersea denizens have, well, people parts on the top and fish parts on the bottom. Nobody could actually see any genitals or anything. But come on, this was clearly much ado about nothing. Fortunately for fans of decency everywhere, the missing underthings were inserted for the movie's DVD release.
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So is a missing line of paint enough to cause a panic? Is it creepy that Mickey owns a dog and is friends with Goofy, who is also a dog? The answer to both questions is "yes." Reports from the time said that retailers sold out of the laserdisc for the movie one day after initial news of the missing undies hit the media back in 1994. For the briefest of moments, only about a frame or two, viewers can see that the animators declined to draw any definitive underwear between Jessica's legs. When Jessica and Eddie Valiant get into a car crash, they're both thrown from their cab.
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Just as the video release of The Rescuers revealed a hidden controversy, so too did the Laserdisc release of Roger Rabbit. In 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, femme fatale Jessica Rabbit has an infamous line: "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." As it turns out, that was a little truer than anyone could've guessed. It's not like one of the animators drew a woman not wearing any underpants. Meanwhile, copies of the movie that escaped the recall are fetching big bucks on ebay, commanding whopping prices between, uh, four and eleven dollars. Nearly three months later, The Rescuers was released once again, this time without the nudie pics. The image probably would never have been discovered at all if it weren't for improvements in video technology that allowed people to freeze the movie and find its secret shame. Apparently, sometime between the film's completion and its debut in theaters, someone in the distribution chain slipped the image in, unbeknownst to Disney, or really anyone. The reason? That was even more shocking: hidden within two frames of the movie was an inexplicable photo of a naked lady. In 1999, Disney made a surprising announcement, saying it was going to recall 3.4 million copies of its 1977 animated film, The Rescuers, just three days after the movie's second release on home video.