resend - BBC - Christmas song edit - PC madness?

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 18 Dec 2007 Richard Chonak wrote:

> Or from "It's a most unusual play":
> 
> "There's no scenery, there's no lighting, there's no costumes -- oh,
> what art!"

Isn't there also a line about "the boy gets the boy and the girl gets 
the girl"?  
 
> Anyway, I hate the sort of edit done to "12 Gifts of Christmas" --
> they just snipped out the word "naked" rather than adding an audible
> bleep or pause, so the song has a little "jump" in every verse, for
> those of us old enough to remember the original version before it got
> Orwellized.

This is old.  There's a line cut from every print I've ever seen of 
the Marx Brothers movie "Animal Crackers," from the song "Hooray for 
Captain Spaulding."  An entire line of the song is missing, and the 
tune of that verse doesn't flow correctly as a result.  And the 
splice is visible when you watch the film.  

Margaret Dumont sings (of Captain Spaulding, the African Explorer), 
"He is the only white man who's covered every acre."

And Groucho (Captain Spaulding) sings, "I think I'll try and make 
her."  This line is cut.

And the chorus sings, "Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!"

Apparently this line was acceptable on stage in the 1920s but not in 
movies.

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