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- From: ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.192455.2934@ncmicro.lonestar.org>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:24:55 GMT
- References: <H.ea.ltE0ksiqd6M@harvee.billerica.ma.us> <1992Nov18.195649.22269@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.195649.22269@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- }scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator) writes:
- }: >billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- }:
- }: the book ended with travis shooting an apparently healthy yeller, beacuse
- }: yeller had been mauled by a rabid wolf and was sure to get rabies himself.
- }: travis begged his mom to wait and see, and was told something like"don't be
- }: gross, we don't want to see poor yeller get rabid". so travis shot him anyway
- }: (sob).
- }:
- }: the movie ended with mom and travis deciding to wait and see, yeller going
- }: all nasty and almost killing travis' rotten kid brother arliss, who didn't
- }: understand why yeller was locked up and tried to release him, and *then*
- }: travis shooting yeller. rather than sanitising the book, disney added
- }: scenes of yeller being a nasty rabid would-be killer.
- }
- }Hm, you saw a different version than I saw back in the 50s. In it, Yeller
- }did not have rabies - just a chicken bone stuck in its mouth. Thus, the dog
- }was not killed in the movie. I wonder how many versions were issued, and
- }when?
-
- Ah, I see where the confusion is coming in now....folks, the original
- movie was an early experiment in "interactive cinema". The audience,
- when entering, were handed one of those little metal clicker thingies,
- and at certain places in the film "Ol Yeller", they could pick from
- several different possible plot-lines by clicking their clicker
- when prompted by the screen. The versions of "Ol Yeller" you now
- see on the small screen are actually an edited version of the original...
- the portions used during the editing are largely up to the editor.
-
- To put it in simpler terms...it was kinda like the movie "Clue", only
- funnier.
-
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-
- Lance
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