- This cartoon was colorized in 1968 by having every other frame traced over onto a cel. Each redrawn cel was painted in color and then photographed over a colored reproduction of each original background. Needless to say, the animation quality dropped considerably from the original version with this method. The cartoon was colorized again in 1992, this time with a computer adding color to a new print of the original black and white cartoon. This preserved the quality of the original animation.
- The redrawn-colorized and computer-colorized versions on Nickelodeon severely edited this cartoon to remove all the sequences of the African natives. The redrawn colorized version edited the ending by replacing the shot of Africa as a blackfaced caricature bidding farewell to the viewer with a repeat of the opening pan from Dark Africa to Darkest Africa while the computer-colorized ending freeze-framed on the shot of Africa before it turns into a blackface caricature. Both versions play the audio normally for the end joke.
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