The Little Mermaid: I remember seeing another film version too, long before the Disney version came out. I don't know if it was the same one, because it was so long ago, but it was true to the original fairy tale and she became sea foam. I was kind of disgusted at the Disney's version's end, because it was such a radical departure from the original story, but I don't see how they could've gone from singing lobsters to a dead mermaid.

Disney sure does sanitize, and when they don't do "enough" cleaning up (i.e., with The Black Cauldron), they seem to self-censor too. I just think Disney, and a lot of American culture, doesn't give kids enough credit. Things get dumbed down so much, like when they "Americanized" the Harry Potter books... but that's another rant altogether. :)

I'll have to seek out the animated Heidi - I bet it's really cute, and it was a hoot to see the animated Waterbabies, even if they changed the story a lot.