ENTERTAINMENT giant Disney is to remove all images of patio heaters from its films.

A memorable scene from 'Snow White'

But film historian Wayne Hayes said: "The March of the Patio Heaters from Fantasia was groundbreaking. 

"In Bambi, the poor little fawn is all alone in the world until he strikes up a friendship with the wise old patio heater. 

"And what child could ever forget that beautiful scene from Snow White when she pretends the patio heater is her prince charming?"

Hayes, author of Gassy: Hollywood and the Patio Heater, added: "Walt Disney himself would spend long winter evenings sitting around the patio heater with his friends, making anti-semitic remarks."

But Tom Logan, spokesman for Patio Heaters Endanger the Lives of Children (PHELCH), said: "If children see their favourite characters cavorting with a patio heater they will pressure their parents into buying one."

Describing patio heaters as a 'gateway polluter', Logan added: "As adults they will move from patio heaters to gas barbecues and 4x4s.

"Eventually they will set up their own coal-fired power station and will have the coal delivered by passenger jet."

Disney is also to ban images of frowning, arguments and disappointment.

Chief executive Robert Iger said: "The world is a happy place. At Disney we have no time for grumps and grouches. We prefer to show them being killed in cruel and unusual ways."

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