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Feb 26, 2011, 7:41 AM
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Indian Serenade redubbed on Totally Tooned In?
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I was watching Totally Tuned In on Antenna TV this morning and saw a cartoon called Yippy the Snake Charmer. I found that the original title was Indian Serenade.
In the beginning of the cartoon the Indian girl is talking and there is music playing. The voice and music sounded more modern and really chintzy. Where you would think there would be sound effects there were none. I thought probably the entire cartoon had been redubbed.
A short time later the sound makes a big change. The music is more symphonic and there are appropriate sound effects. This continues until just around the time of the rattlesnake chase when the chintzy sound starts again and lasts until the end of the cartoon. At the end the girl is talking again.
Is anyone familiar with this cartoon? I was wondering if the original voice was in broken English or had a heavy accent had been redubbed to make it sound politically correct.
(This post was edited by Hourman on Feb 26, 2011, 8:47 AM)
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Jun 27, 2011, 1:51 PM
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Re: Indian Serenade redubbed on Totally Tooned In?
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I've notice redubbing in several old Columbia cartoons now being shown on Totally Tooned In on Antenna TV. In most, the music is what is redubbed in toons like "Poor Butterfly," "Animal Cracker Circus" and even "Georgie and the Dragon." I don't remember seeing "Indian Serenade" years ago, but the absolute worst of editing among a cartoon I'm familiar with was in "The Little Match Girl." The toon truncated Hans Christian Anderssen's short story, but the folks at Sony Pictures truncated the cartoon, removing everything from the height of the girl's dream to the Guardian Angel disappearing in the heavens, thus eliminating the tearjerking ended in which the Little Match Girl's Dream is shattered by reality and she expires with her last match, only to be taken into heaven by the angel. This was the best cartoon (and only one nominated for an Oscar) under the Charles Mintz regime at Columbia and to see the violence done to such a work of art by Sony is heartrending. I've contacted Antenna TV on this, but they told me to take it up with the syndicator.
P.S.: If they redubbed dialogue to be politically correct in "Indian Serenade," why did the Tokyo-based folks at Sony leave in the ethnic charicature Japenese Moth in "Poor Butterfly"?
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