ChuckPenn3 | Disney Censorship Comparison: Pecos Bill’s Cigarette in Melody Time (1948) @ChuckPenn3 | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Melody Time (1948) features a segment on the legend of Pecos Bill in which the character smokes throughout. The cigarette was digitally removed and a sequence of him rolling a cigarette on his tongue was cut when the film premiered on VHS in 1998, and the alterations remained on the 2000 DVD release. The European DVD release remained intact, just like the 1987 Japanese LaserDisc. The uncensored and uncut film wasn’t available on video in the US until the 2021 Blu-ray release.
Melody Time (1948) features a segment on the legend of Pecos Bill in which the character smokes throughout. The cigarette was digitally removed and a sequence of him rolling a cigarette on his tongue was cut when the film premiered on VHS in 1998, and the alterations remained on the 2000 DVD release. The European DVD release remained intact, just like the 1987 Japanese LaserDisc. The uncensored and uncut film wasn’t available on video in the US until the 2021 Blu-ray release.
![Going All the Way Q&As with Mark Pellington and Lesley Ann Warren at Brain Dead Studios [11/10/2022]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U90Oec0VtV4/hqdefault.jpg "Going All the Way Q&As with Mark Pellington and Lesley Ann Warren at Brain Dead Studios [11/10/2022]
Moderated by Jim Hemphill
https://goingalltheway.oscilloscope.net
19:18 = second screening with director Mark Pellington
32:51 = making a new film from the ingredients of the first release")
