Speaking of landmark scenes, with all likelihood mine is this:
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http://www.tickletheater.com/showthread.php?t=8326&highlight=fujiko
A mainstream anime scene, from when animes weren't called such, just those "evil japan toons".
Featured bondage, teasing, nudity and senseless torture for the sake of it.
As drawn out and extreme as mainstreams scenes would probably ever get - and it got cut to ribbons in following runs...
I am glad I managed to track it down, eventually.
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I am familiar with the Baron Munchausen scene too - got it on tape back then, and kept treasuring it ever since.
Same with Robocop - it's lying somewhere in my tape pile.
Later got exposed to the North to Alaska scene, and it was good, but I was older, so it was not as etched in my memory as other scenes were.
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Plus I am a closet fan of magic sawing performances too, and I've been gathering a few vids from yahoo groups and youtube too.
Trainsawing was Mark Wilson's signature trick, and you can easily find some low quality flicks on youtube...
As I later learnt though, "sawing in three" was even better, as it did not resort to animatronics feet or hidden models: the assistant would lie in a groove in the hollowed out centre of the table, and her own feet would stick out for audience to see.
When the magician would tickle her, it would be real - well, as real as a staged show would go...
I cannot seem to locate the relevant clips on youtube now, but I'll try and post them, because some of them might appeal to other "sawing" fans out there.