Beauty and the Beast (No Time to Duck)

 

Director: Friz Freleng

Summary: In a cartoon that's nothing like the 1991 Disney feature film, the 2017 live-action Disney film, or even the 1946 French film (which wasn't made by Disney, but is worth seeing if you hate or are sick of Disney), a little girl dreams she's in Toyland (or some kind of nursery rhyme fantasy kingdom that was popular and appealed to kids at the time) and teams up with a toy soldier to take down a beast that's threatening to destroy the dream world.

The Channel: Unnamed syndicated prints.

Part(s) Edited: The scene of Humpty Dumpty laughing at the toy soldier blushing over being kissed by the little girl shortened the part where, after Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall and breaks, five wooden ducks pop out and do a dance/skate on their wheel feet as a gnome feeds soda crackers through a fan to simulate snow. As the old Censored Cartoons Page and the Looney Tunes wiki section has stated, this scene isn't problematic (unless you find a man blushing over being shown any kind of open affection, Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall as per that nursery rhyme that didn't even mention he was an egg, or the sight of wooden ducks somehow offensive) and was only edited because the sequence ate a lot of clock and would probably cause a lot of people (particularly younger audiences, since this does feel like something that would appeal more to children) to get bored with it and tune out.

How It Plays Edited/Video Comparison: Like the older black and white musical cartoons, this doesn't affect the plot much. There's a slight jump in the audio, but the scene has nothing to do with the rest of the short, so you're not missing much. And the approximation video below shows that, despite some amateur video editing on my part:

Availability Uncut: On physical media, it’s available on the Golden Age of Looney Tunes laserdisc set (volume 2, side 7). On streaming media, it’s available restored on HBO Max (now known as “Max”). It might come out on physical media again someday, especially since the new restored version really captures the whimsical, fairy tale aesthetic that Cinecolor tried to capture in the 1930s (though I’m so sure, through 1930s eyes, it probably did look amazing).