As we surmised, the video of the Village of the Smurfs being bombed is actually a little more fully-animated than the clip to which I linked earlier. Here's a link to another newscast that includes the actual footage. [Thanks to Joel Wright for sending me there.]
And I have received three e-mails from people who wrote the old Hanna-Barbera Smurfs show telling me how they had longed to do that scene.