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It's not true that Walt wanted the scenes cut, at least like it is.
First, it was uncut until 1969... after Walt Disney's death. In fact, a mid-1960's episode of the Disneyland show (Wonderful World of Color?) featured the entire segment, WITHOUT cuts. Roy E. Disney has been interviewed before and he has expressed his disgust over the cuts.
Besides, if Walt REALLY wanted it censored, he would have had those scenes re-animated like for The Three Little Pigs.
Not to mention... one of the censored shots is of two Zebra-taurs rolling a carpet up stairs. They were retained in all the previous and subsequent shots, yet digitally erased (causing the carpet to roll itself up the stairs!!!!)
Was it also Walt's say to have the entire "Martins and the Coys" segment of Melody Time deleted? Was it also Walt's say to have shots of Pecos Bill and Goofy smoking deleted from Make Mine Music and Saludas Amigos? Those were all intact until their latest video versions.
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