Joe Carioca wrote:Hey, jebsdad, could you tell us more about
the "Pastoral" censored scenes? I have only seen
the ones available on
www.widescreen.org (and I also know one of
the scenes has been digitally altered) , but I didn't know there where other scenes in which
the black centaurette shows up (during
the storm? This is new to me).
Could you give us more details, please? :)
The censored scenes are as follows: (1) Soon after
the centaurette with white hair steps out of
the pool, two cupids are shown combing a blond's hair - followed by three cupids braiding
the tail of a strawberry blond.
The first censored scene then occurs.
The original scene shows a black maid centaurette kneeling on
the ground, shining
the hoofs of
the white-haired centaurette.
The maid has ribbons on four spikes of hair in
the stereotypical style of
the 1940s.
The edited scene is a close-up of
the white-haired centaurette's upper body, which is enlarged to fill
the entire screen. By looking closely at this scene, you can see her reacting to
the maid "off screen". (2) Immediately after
the cupid sets
the doves on
the red hair of a centaurette,
the original scene shows a maid putting flowers in a blond's tail.
The blond swishes her tail as she runs to look at some male centaurs.
The maid shows irritation, follows her, and starts placing flowers in her tail again.
The edited scene completely cuts out
the first part.
The end of
the scene is shown with
the far right of
the scene shown and enlarged to fill
the scene so
the maid is not seen.
The music is also edited to fit
the edited seconds. (3)
The maile centaurs are shown galloping, followed by
the centaurettes prancing around to attract their attention. Before
the scene of a blue centaurette is
the original scene of a maid trotting behind her and holding reins made of flowers as a strawberry blonde centaurette prances around.
The edited scene cuts out most of this scene and shows a close-up of
the strawberry blond for just a split second. Again,
the music had to be changed to cover this censor. (4)
The black maid centaurette rolls a red carpet up to
the chair for Bacchus,
the god of wine. She cleans off
the chair, tries to grab
the chair when it goes tumbling down with Bacchus in it, and grabs her head in horror when Bacchus and
the chair roll down
the hill.
The censored scene again selects
the part of
the scene
the maid isn't in and enlarges
the scene to fill
the screen. Right at
the start of
the scene, you can freeze
the frame and see
the very back of
the maid at
the far right of
the screen. Some of
the scene is just cut out, so again
the music is changed.
The black maid centaurette is
the same in (1) and (4), with different maids in (2) and (3), for a total of 3 different maids.
The info above is from old 1996 research I did comparing
the scenes from
the TV show with
the VHS video release. It is likely
the DVD (which I haven't checked closely) may have
the scenes censored slightly differently.
The scene (4) is what I was thinking of when I wrote "during
the storm". I probably am in error -
the storm probably had not yet started at that time. I just associate that scene with
the overall storm scenes.
