- The film starts with a drunk witch in black silhouette crossing the sky from right to left, yielding a cup on her right hand, and a wand on her left. On close up, and color, you see CHAMPAGNE FLIGHT in black letters on the red balloon attached to the broom-stick. She accidentally hits the cup half full of bubbling pink champagne, and the cup is suddenly empty, then she loses her magic wand, eventually found in the litter bin by the Pink Panther. This 20 second flight (in a film running 6m 04s) was considered too much for TV and VHS in the '70s, and the animators replaced the witch's alcoholic drink with a chicken drumstick. If you freeze-frame the opening shot where she's seen wobbling across the sky atop her broom, you can see the drink cup in her hand.
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