What If...Jungle Jitters Was Edited for Content (The Da Vinci Resolve Code)

In my senior year of high school, I started tooling around with video editing (why I didn’t chose that as my college major, I’ll never know. I am good at it and trying to get better). One of the exercises I did was…kind of like what I do now with the approximation/compare and contrast videos: see if I can replicate the censorship cuts found in the classic cartoons. However, I also did Snow White Remix (the 2007-08 version. As I mentioned before, the 2025 version is on hiatus for retooling) as an experiment in recontexualizing film through edits (and making running commentary on it) and edited a King of the Hill episode (season one’s “The Order of the Straight Arrow,” not to be confused with season 13’s “Straight As An Arrow”) to make it look like it was cut on a FOX affiliate (or a family-friendly TV channel with moderate to heavy Christian values that aired edited for syndication [and content] versions of shows from other networks) during teatime/after school into early evening hours, before primetime. However, my earliest film editing experiment was editing the Censored Eleven short “Jungle Jitters” to see if the edited version is suitable for airing on Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

Now I know what you’re thinking, “This is a Censored Eleven cartoon. Editing those shorts to get rid of the outdated African/African-American stereotypes is like draining the oceans of the world: difficult, impossible, and can lead to disaster for those crazy enough to try.” Well, I like a challenge. How hard can it be to remove all the scenes of the African cannibals (including one who speaks in a stereotypical Japanese voice for no reason other than for Friz Freleng to make the short more racially insensitive than it already is. The man’s a visionary)? Answer: it’s easy, but the results are incoherent. At least with “September in the Rain,” having most (or all) of its black caricatures cut doesn’t make or break the story, as it’s one of those near-plotless “products come to life in a closed store” musical shorts that Termite Terrace had a lot of in its “wannabe Disney” phase. Here…yeah, not so much.

So, as an amuse-bouche to the “Porky in Wackyland/Dough for the Do-Do” entry (as well as the podcast/running commentary video on “Claws for Alarm,” hopefully coming in time for Halloween), enjoy this amateur attempt at making a Censored Eleven cartoon suitable for general audiences. 

For those who don’t want that, “Jungle Jitters,” despite not being released on home media, is a public domain short and can easily be found on YouTube and other video sites.