So I watched "That's Entertainment" last night...

[joeybee12]

...had seen it a long, long time ago. You really gotta be impressed with the talent even if that sort of entertainment is long gone. Two things made me cringe:

1.) Judy Garland and Micky Rooney in blackface in one of their Andy Hardy movies...this was 1974 when TE was out, so I guess in 1974 people still thought blackface was ok. The movie itself in which they're in blackface must be the early 1940's.

2.) While introducing Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Bing Crosby makes a comment like "If you're one of those people who thinks dancing is for sissies..." Yeesh!

[BuelahWitch]

1. Blackface wasn't ok in 1974, but it was in 1940

Censoring old films to make them fit the political correctness of the current day is just wrong. I'm surprised Time Warner didn't cut it from the film however, because they've hacked many of the old Warner Bros. cartoons to pieces.

[joeybee12]

2. It was part of a larger montage of all the Andy Hardy movies...

...and they easily could have kept it out of the montage in 1974...it wasn't like it was an intergral part to TE.

[BuelahWitch]

3. Many nude scenes and "fucks" can be kept of of films too

Censorship is censorship.

[joeybee12]

4. Yeah, but my point is that they chose this scene to include...so they

really didn't have a problem with it. The producers of That's Entertainment had tons of movies to choose from...they decided to use this also. There were plenty of other clips they didn't use simply because they didn't like them or thought they weren't good enough...it wasn't censorship, it was a decision based on style or taste.