they just can't leave well enough alone...

[acroyear]

or actually make the assumption we're not *that* stupid...

The Disney Treasures series dvd on Disneyland has a Disneyland TV show broadcast in 1962, "Disneyland After Dark", which includes a segment on polynesian dances from Tahiti and Samoa.  Well, at the time nobody would have bothered...but this new pressing/mastering includes the "professional stunt person, do not attempt" warnings.

utterly anachronistic, reminding me that ALL history can be tampered with in the end, and always reflects the time at which its presented regardless of what it was at the time.

*sigh*

i can't wait until broadcasters and media suppliers just take "don't do stupid shit at home" for granted, like they used to.

or can we just let darwin take over like he used to?

makes you wonder, if darwin was still alive, would he have been sued today when stupid people do stupid things and make the list?

also makes you wonder why they didn't disclaimer some of the other obviously historical things at the time, like the fact that in the mark twain riverboat sequence included, the only black people on segment are the performers, with none in the audience? :)

at least with the blackface stereotypes in mickey mouse in b&w, they included the discliamer...again, i can't wait 'til that becomes permanently *history*, recognized as such so that no politically correct disclaimers are necessary to reassure the permanent victim-class that showing this stuff today doesn't mean anybody actually feels or acts that way anymore...

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[selkiesiren.livejournal.com]

Ah! OK...I shoulda guessed, I've seen Lilo and Stitch, after all ;)

In any case, yeeeeeah, OK, I can see that perhaps people might want to be careful about fire...but, I agree that it ought to be a matter of common sense, not "warning labels".