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Started by Kiwi, Mar 01, 2024, 07:24 PM

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Kiwi

Next up from him are two issues of Australian PC User.

 


Kiwi

Zzap!64 #33 is now available.




slider1983

Quote from: kitsunebi on Mar 01, 2024, 09:38 PMWow.  :o  I'm not gonna pretend that I'm politically correct all the time, but did they seriously print this on the cover?
I don't see a problem compared to other lads magazines like Front. If you read a copy of Front your mind would be blown. More of a case of America culture and modern society being too overly sensitive.

Quote from: Gregorick on Mar 01, 2024, 11:11 PMThe way that women and minorities were represented during this period was pretty abhorrent. From page 3 girls sitting proudly on newsagents shelves to overly-sexualised beer adverts on tv it was hard to escape. With the slow decline of lads mags (eventually leading to campaigners getting covers changed or removed from shelves) and the rise of the internet a lot of these commonplace things in gaming magazines disappeared but that PS2 era is pretty bleak. It's also worth noting the effect that the extremely repugnant tabloid press had on nearly every facet of British life around this time (as IloveCats100 points out above).
It's all crap now. Much better back then. More risks taken.

Quote from: Kiwi on Mar 13, 2024, 03:53 PMCompanies like Disney are still trying to work out a way forward with some of their older titles.
I'd love to see Disney finally release Song of the South. Also congrats on Busty Dusty being the winner.  ;D

kitsunebi

Quote from: slider1983 on Mar 25, 2024, 01:37 PMI don't see a problem compared to other lads magazines like Front. If you read a copy of Front your mind would be blown. More of a case of America culture and modern society being too overly sensitive.

Sorry, you don't get to decide which ethnic slurs are OK.  "Jap" is offensive to most Japanese people (and others besides) so it's not OK to use, ever, unless you're writing dialogue for a fictional character who is supposed to be racist.  Being sensitive to avoiding offensive racial slurs is not American culture, it's just being a decent human being.

Kiwi

Commodore User #44 is now available.




Kiwi

Nine issues of Play Meter scanned by Hubz have been added to the site.

   
   
   


Kiwi

The December 1983 issue of Your Computer (UK) is now available.




Kiwi

Quote from: slider1983 on Mar 25, 2024, 01:37 PMI'd love to see Disney finally release Song of the South.

I have Song of the South but it really could do with a high def transfer. Getting away from the slavery connotations and all, it was the first movie to combine animation and real actors so it's a treasure purely from that perspective.

Unfortunately Disney are too PC to probably ever release it again which is a shame when you look at the fact they added a message at the beginning of the original Aladdin to warn viewers of the racial caricatures used and that they were a product of the time so you would think they could do the same for Song of the South.

Kiwi

Jason scanned another two issues of Australian PC Authority for our archives.

 


Kiwi

The December 1988 issue of Bits & Bytes is now available.






zaraned

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Quote from: Kiwi on Mar 27, 2024, 04:05 PM
Quote from: slider1983 on Mar 25, 2024, 01:37 PMI'd love to see Disney finally release Song of the South.

I have Song of the South but it really could do with a high def transfer. Getting away from the slavery connotations and all, it was the first movie to combine animation and real actors so it's a treasure purely from that perspective.

Unfortunately Disney are too PC to probably ever release it again which is a shame when you look at the fact they added a message at the beginning of the original Aladdin to warn viewers of the racial caricatures used and that they were a product of the time so you would think they could do the same for Song of the South.

That was one of the first VHS tapes I ever watched at home from a rental store. During the mid nineties. It was mind blowing technology to me, I was fairly young at the time.

I always think of Who Framed Roger Rabbit with the whole  actors and animation concept. It kind of stole its thunder there.

kitsunebi

Not to sound like a Disney nerd (I'm not), but The Three Caballeros beat Song of the South to the box office by almost two years as the first feature film to mix live action and animation.  And Disney was doing it long before that in their short films.  The first (I think) was released over 100 years ago!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIFEIVkYSnw

Kiwi

Quote from: kitsunebi on Mar 28, 2024, 12:31 PMNot to sound like a Disney nerd (I'm not), but The Three Caballeros beat Song of the South to the box office by almost two years as the first feature film to mix live action and animation.  And Disney was doing it long before that in their short films.  The first (I think) was released over 100 years ago!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIFEIVkYSnw

Never seen that one!! Maybe it should have been "First to be released that won an Academy Award?"  ;D

kitsunebi

I've got pics of me as a kid at Disney World in 1986 posing with these guys (I know it was '86 because I won a free ticket for Disney World's 15th anniversary promotion).


Apparently '86 was the last time Song of the South was released theatrically in the US, for its 40th anniversary.

What's interesting is that the Splash Mountain ride was designed around the Song of the South characters and didn't even open until 1989.  It closed last year for a redesign and will reopen this summer with a Princess and the Frog theme, finally wiping SothS from the public eye completely.

I haven't seen the entire film since I was a young kid, but I'm pretty sure I saw the Brer Rabbit animated sequences lots of times on the Disney Channel growing up because I remember them fairly well.  You're right, a disclaimer is definitely the way to go, though in this case they might want to also make sure that any profits derived from any kind of release go into some sort of public fund or charity so that no one accuses them of profiting from stories seen as cultural appropriation.  Of course, there's the problem right there - I'm pretty sure the Disney execs are thinking that if they can't profit off of a re-release, then why bother with the potential headache.

ChickenMan

Song of the South continued to be sold in the UK on VHS tape for a number of years after it stopped in the USA (I have one of those still). It was also released on Laser Disk, never DVD back in the 80's, I still have a quality rip of that here somewhere.