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...broader implication arising from the Post Office restrictions are even more alarming. The fact that scores of Government translators daily censor or confiscate Russian publications does in itself sufficiently resemble Soviet thought-control practices. But worse that that, under the existing legislation there is apparently nothing to prevent the Post Office, with the Attorney General's permission, from widening the censorship list to include socialist literature or just unpatriotic propaganda originating abroad. Universities also are exposed to the whims of Washington bureaucrats, because at the present time it is only through the permission of the Post Office that these institutions...
...working journalist is usually innately shy about being interviewed himself. When we turn the tables on him, some curious things are likely to happen. The reporter being interviewed may get edgy and commit the sin he hates most; ask to read, i.e., censor, the finished copy. Or he may insist on putting the best part of what he says "off the record." Or, a brilliant questioner himself, he may be struck dumb at being interviewed. By and large, however, most newsmen have the good grace to laugh at such inhibitions when our reporters point out the irony...
Surprisingly enough, most of the complaints are against "violence and brutality," not the overly spicy episodes. When one movie pictured a man clubbing another over the head with an old water hose the British censors brought out their scissors. "It's an act someone could imitate," they said. A particularly good example is that Cinema scope epic, "King of the Khyber Ribes." In one scene the natives have a rollicking time galloping back and forth as they toss spears into the captive Britishers-no American censor murmured a word of objection. In Europe, however, the "atrocity" found approval for showing...
...ousted "Mr. Imperium" because the king in the movie cavorted with "a common singer." The filming of "David and Bathsheba" seemed to irritate everyone-the Moslems were shocked by David's unsaintly behavior, Egypt sliced out a hot diplomatic exchange between David and the Egyptian ambassador, and Spain's censor worried because the film was based entirely on the Old Testament. The moral standards in India oppose any dance sequences "if there is a shaking," as well as all drinking. In the "Student Prince," for example, a song was dropped only because beer was mentioned. Sometimes a foreign government directly...
LACMA also rides herd on the program itself, ever since the first show brought in a flood of complaints that a resuscitation method used on a newborn baby was obsolete. LACMA acts both as a censor and a prod to Medic. A show dealing with homosexuality was "tabled" by the doctors, but they have lifted some TV taboos, e.g., in a film about an unwed mother, NBC balked when the doctor-as he normally would-asked the girl when her last period had occurred. LACMA insisted that the word stay...