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Posted by Walter Traprock on 05/30/07 17:21
Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:
> Fake Name <fakename@fake.com> wrote:
>
> > >would make movies like E.T. "R"....
>
> > Maybe they can replace the cig's with walkie-talkies?
>
> Or they could just erase them...
>
> A number of years ago, Cartoon Network ran the anime mini-series, Blue Sub
> #6. Some of the characters smoked. Since Cartoon Network has a strict
> "no smoking" policy for their daytime shows, they simply digitally erased
> the cigarettes. This would have been fine...but they left the smoke clouds
> behind, leading some to wonder how it was cold enough for some of the
> characters' breath to show up when the rest of the folks were complaining
> how hot it was outside.
I wouldn't mind if they 'digitally erased' anime as a genre; the closest
I can get to it is the live action movie tetsuo: iron man from back in
the eighties, I think, but that's not really anime.
As for smoking in cartoons, they could insert a statement saying it's
strictly for "medicinal purposes", akin to the statement in an asian
country (I forget the name of) before episodes of Laverne and Shirley
stating that what was about to be depicted are escapees from an insane
asylum.
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