Racism

[brookiki]

Tonight, we were browsing around for Christmas specials on Netflix Instant Watch and we came across "Christmas Classics vol 1." We've watched about half of it so far and it's pretty great....especially since we remembered a couple of the cartoons. In one, an inventor fashioned toys for orphans out of stuff lying around the orphanage. As an adult

Comments

[jack_infinitude]

Hiding the content doesn't really do anything except make the creators look like cowards, though. It's one thing to make mistakes like these, it's another to sweep them under the rug and pretend they never happened. Erasing the content from Fantasia didn't do anything except call attention to it. Everyone knows about it now, so what good did trying to hide it do?

I'm part of the "own your mistakes!" camp. It's still part of the history of animation, and it deserves a spot -- even if its only in a "how not to" guide.