Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comics Magazine Association of America, created to combat public criticism of horror comics, last week announced its Comic Book Code, which will be enforced by Censor Charles F. Murphy, former New York City magistrate. Among the provisions: ¶ The words "horror" and "terror" are not permitted as comic-book titles, and no "scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism or masochism" are allowed. ¶ Sympathy for criminals, "unique details" of a crime, or any treatment that tends to "create disrespect for established authority" are banned. ¶ "Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, ridicule of racial or religious...
...Vanishing Prairie (Walt Disney), the second of Walt Disney's full-length nature films, was fortunate enough last week to have one of its scenes, in which the audience watches the birth of a buffalo calf, banned by the New York State Board of Censors. A week later the censor reconsidered, but the headlines had already had their effect. As a result of the publicity, the picture will probably do very well at the box office...
...strong helped the weak whenever they could," said one young French paratrooper, "but every 500 meters someone fell to the ground." Said a German legionnaire: "Of 400 men in my squad when we left Dienbienphu . . . (twelve words deleted by French HQ censor)." Said a Spanish legionnaire: "There were . . . (three words censored) among 390 men in my squad." And a second Frenchman added: ". . . (two words censored) of 290 in my squad died...
Meanwhile, New York, fully aware of the censorship problem, was waiting for the story. A little after 6 o'clock that Saturday evening, Clara Applegate, in TIME'S Foreign News Bureau in New York, answered her phone. It was Rosenhouse on the line. A sympathetic censor had allowed his call to go through, and for the next four hours Rosenhouse dictated his story. "The same censor," said Rosenhouse, "began to help other correspondents, but he got careless. The police caught him, beat him with rubber hoses, shot him in the leg three times and fractured his skull...
...Flick developed an idea that would bring moviegoers into partnership with the censors. The plan would allow the censors to put all films into one of four categories: 1) "For the whole family"; 2) "A little less than entirely suitable"; 3) "For adults only''; 4) "To be shown under very restricted conditions." Classification, agreed Director George (Shane) Stevens, "would serve a wider audience w^ith greater definition . . . It's the British way. This should be the American way." Snorted Director William (Roman Holiday) Wyler: "We can't be guardians of children...