Betty Boop and Bimbo were seriously affected by the code. Bimbo disappeared afterwards, because he was considered Betty Boops boyfriend, and the code said no, because it would imply bestiality.

Now I was watching some Droopy cartoons which were made only 10 years later, and it hit me, Droopy and the wolf are chasing after the Red head girl in a sexual way. Why is Betty Boops relationship with Bimbo altered, But Droopy and the Red head girl able to exist like they did?

As far as movies went, the code was still in full effect until the mid 1950's, when Otto Preminger began making some of his best movies.

So did the censorship not monitor cartoons as closely as full length movies? Did Tex Avery receive numerous requests to alter the characters or stories relating to Droopy? If he did, did he outright ignore them or did he actually alter the cartoon in some places for the censors?

So I was watching Kill Bill 2 last night and noticed a Heckle and Jeckle cartoon near the end. I then watched the credits and it stated Heckled and Jeckle appears courtesy of Classic Media. Now if Classic Media owns something they seem willing to put it out on dvd, although not always in top quality.

Now the question is, does Classic Media still own the characters, the movie came in 2004 so ownership could have changed hands since?

Also if Classic Media owns them, is there some other legal hold up which is preventing them putting out a dvd?

This was a show that I watched a lot as a kid, but have not seen it since, so I have no idea how it holds up today. However, since this was one of the most popular cartoon shows of the 1990's a quality dvd release is long overdue.

It seems that what nickelodeon has been doing with MOD through amazon has worked, and now others are copying that method. That is how these will be released. There are 8 seasons, no more than 13 eps a season, 80 total, and every episode will be included on 7 different volumes at $20 a piece, and all appear to be released at the same time early next year.

you can pre-order on amazon now, tvshowsondvd.com had all of this info.

Jolly Frollics will be released through TCM.com to start with and will be released on march 5th and will be $34.99

Mr. Magoo theatrical set is listed on amazon to be released on june 19th and will be $31.49

cartoonbrew has info on these sets on their site

Recently I purchased the thunderbean Popeye set, because I love the 3 technicolor 2 reelers with Popeye. However I am not a big fan of the rest of his cartoons, so I was never interested in warner bros set.

My question is how could Fleischer let the 3 best cartoons of Popeye go into the public domain, but keep the rights to all of the other cartoons? The 2 reelers would have had the most time, effort, money, and energy put into them, and they produced some of the best results for the Popeye series.

I understand that in the 1930's no one could foresee home video releases like we have today, and other benefits of holding onto the rights of your own cartoon. But, why keep the rights to loads of average cartoons in the series but not these 3? I think only 6 out of more than 100 Fleischer produced black and white 1 reelers fell into public domain, while Fleischer kept the rights to the rest.

Perhaps Steve Stanchfield has some insight to some of my questions.