The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (1949) and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow...
I have just found out that the Sleepy Hollow segment from 49 was released in 58 as a feature. The question is why is the film banned and were there any changes made to it?
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Banned? The film was never banned; Disney simply decided to market the two segments individually, since there had really been no connection between them in the first place. The only changes to the...
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MG, not only is the stand-alone not banned; it has long been on home video as such (with the teeny trim Jerry cited.)
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It was on the list of banned cartoons (1958 version).
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absolutely my Favorite version of any headless horseman movie ever!!!
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I'd never heard of it being banned.
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Sometimes it amazes me just how well researched many films actually are. The architecture and floor plan of the Transylvanian buildings in the early scenes of UNIVERSAL'S DRACULA betray the fact that...
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Does anyone know whether the Disney film had the first depiction of the horseman carrying a jack-o'-lantern? It seems obvious these days that the horseman, using a pumpkin instead of a head, would...
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I thought that in Ye Olden Times, there were Jack-o'Lanterns in Europe -- but they were carved into turnips, as pumpkins weren't known until the New World was discovered (and exploited). Maybe in 1790...
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An early illo, Paul -
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Wich2: That illustration is awesome! It's composition, with the horseman headed toward Ichabod and the viewer, makes for a much more dynamic presentation than the more horizontally dominant depictions...
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Thanks, Paul - it IS great, isn't it? Not sure of the date, though the style looks very early; and the artist seems to be Emanuel Luetze, who died in the 1860's. -Craig
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