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Lights Fantastic is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.
Plot
Lights Fantastic is a cartoon showcasing New York City and its various bright lights, and how they all come to life. Similar in concept to Billboard Frolics from 1935.
Censorship
Although this cartoon aired uncut elsewhere on Cartoon Network (specifically on a late-night showing of The Acme Hour) and Boomerang, on the Cartoon Network anthology shows Toonheads (episode "The Musical Cartoons Of Friz Freleng") and The Looney Tunes Show, these scene were censored:
- The scene featuring Chinese people frantically reading Chinese print and speaking in Chinese very fast is cut. The previous scene, showing people boarding a rickshaw tour bus, was also edited, but instead of being cut, it was cropped so the Chinese rickshaw drivers are barely shown (this edit was also done when the cartoon short aired on TNT).
- During the end scene with the Egyptian cigarette ad, the last frame of the billboard where it shows a cheesecake picture of a redheaded woman posing in a green swimsuit is cut (While it may seem like an innocuous cut, frame-precise pausing reveals that the woman's green swimsuit is translucent enough to reveal her naked body).
Goofs
The Turner "dubbed version" replaces the original 1941-1955 MM ending music cue with the 1939-1941 MM ending music cue.
Home Video
- DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, Disc 4, #2
- DVD - Looney Tunes Musical Masterpieces, #18