The Secret of Monkey Island - Cut Cannibals Cutscene Restored

See more unused Monkey Island content here! gamehistory.org/?p=4048
This unused and never-finished cutscene would have showed the player how to use the cotton swab key to gain entrance to the Monkey Head. The cannibals - who are uniquely colored here - were meant to have unique animations, including the actual use of the key. These animations were likely not created before this scene was cut from the game.
Recorded on DOSBox using a custom build of the game. Code restored by Marius Winter, gameplay video by Jake Rodkin, MT-32 audio recording by Roger Holten.

[@netsider]

I love these lost/hidden content videos, and I never really got very far in any of the Monkey Island games.

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

Took me a year to finish the 1st one when it came out.
I think it took me two years to finish the second one.
Absolutely no walkthroughs in the 90's. Me and a schoolfriend both played these games and Sierra, and when someone found out how to advance, we shared the clue. But sometimes we just hit a brick wall. There's a part in Monkey 2 that took me about... a year of trying. I think it's the part where everyone got stuck, even Tim Schafer talks about that puzzle.
I basically gave up on the game, then all of a sudden it happened.
If you like these games, I advise no walkthroughs. It's the best way of playing them, the mental reward you get is awesome when it's done.

[@netsider]

@@MiguelBaptista1981 I really wish they'd make games like this today still

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

@@netsider Well, there's Thumbleweed, and Broken Age.
But they are either not the same innocent and dream-like stories, or just don't capture my imagination in the same way.

[@chloe_the_cat2831]

@@MiguelBaptista1981 I don't remember how I first solved the puzzles in MI2 when I played it in the early 90s, but I remember that throughout my childhood/teen years I had played it so many times, I knew what I had to do by heart. I haven't played it in years now, I think it's time to give it another playthrough. :p
I had to use a "walkthrough" in MI1. I'm not a native English speaker and I was about 10 or 10something in the 90s when I played it so my English wasn't very good (and no internet to check back then). I didn't know what a magnetic compass was,so after a long time being stuck my brother managed to find a book from a friend which had the solution and told me what to use and I was so embarrassed. I thought I may not have been sure what a compass was but I should have guessed that the magnetic part was what mattered. It's funny because I was so sure using that made no sense I had not tried to use it. :p I still facepalm when I think of it. :p

[@DrLaemmerbein]

@@MiguelBaptista1981 I hated that stupid hand! Played it on a Amiga 1200 with one disk drive at that time :D I had more loading time than play time...

[@scotchnichols]

Love it! Thank you for sharing these, and more!

[@thommekm]

This scene was really cut out? I'm pretty sure to remember that I've seen this when playing it as a child..
Maybe there were different cuts made between Amiga and PC?

[@THEVNTGNETWORK]

Hi, I'm realizing a video on Monkey Island: can I use parts of your cutscene videos (obviously citing your channel and the website in the video's description).
Let me know,
thanks,
DC

[@dxfan18]

Red Skull had an unknown twin brother

[@kypello3512]

I’m sure there’s more to this cutscene. I remember seeing a part in the close-up shot of the monkey head (where you normally can see the idols) where those same four cannibals walk in a circle around the idols, spin around like they’re doing a dance, and I think then they go into the monkey head? It was something like that anyway. I don’t remember where I saw it and can’t find the video.
EDIT: I found the clip I was thinking of! ua-cam.com/video/crvf-zwT9dA/v-deo.html (at 12:16)
Edit 2: To avoid anyone else getting confused like I did: That video I linked to above is just a mockup/artistic recreation of what the scene COULD have looked like, based only on a verbal description given by Adam Bormann, who was a developer on the SE. It was made before this video by the VGHF, which shows the ACTUAL scene as it was originally coded. I don't mean to give the impression that the VGHF's documentation of this scene was incomplete, or that the mockup was based on any real code.

[@sepixsound]

cool!

[@patrickwilson1459]

I don’t get it with the cannibals at the monkey head where the mouth opens and then they disappear.

[@Ryorr]

Why did they cut It? Maybe space problem?

[@Pingwn]

I think it might not work story wise, the Cannibals don't have the key because Herman has it, so how will they enter it?