Category:Censored Eleven

The Censored Eleven is a group of cartoons originally produced and released by Warner Bros. that were withheld in the United States by United Artists in 1968. UA owned the distribution rights to the Associated Artists Productions library at that time and decided to ban these eleven cartoons from broadcast because the use of ethnic stereotypes in the cartoons, specifically African stereotypes, was deemed too offensive for contemporary audiences. The ban has been continued by UA and the successive owners of the a.a.p. collection. These shorts have not been officially broadcast on television since and have only been exhibited once theatrically by Warner Bros. in Spring 2010 since their withdrawal. They have turned up, however, on low-cost VHS and DVD collections over the last thirty years.