Word: censor
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...slashing that American films undergo in foreign countries may somewhat pacify those who grumble whenever the impassioned scenes in French imports are suddenly cut short. Bathing suit sequences that wouldn't make an American Grandma blush are scrapped minutes after they reach the Irish censors' office, and Tarzan has never appeared in Spain without a full suit of clothes. Since nearly 40 percent of Hollywood's profit comes from abroad, the film czars have gathered legions of experts to remove objectionable parts before they leave this country. But it's impossible to out guess foreign whims, and the film companies...
...Desires" deals with the dope addiction of a ballerina. Raymond Marr, the Acting State Censor who refused the Sunday license for the film, said yesterday that it had always been the policy of the Sunday Censorship Bureau "to refuse a license to any movie dealing with habit-forming drugs...
Madrid's official Roman Catholic weekly ECCLESIA, the only publication in Spain that escapes government censorship, attacking the new restrictive press law proposed by Franco's Chief Censor GABRIEL ARIAS SALGADO...
...sold on U.S. and Canadian newsstands every month will soon have a new "Dior Look." Under the new voluntary Comic Book Code adopted by the industry to avoid state and community censorship (TIME, Nov. 8), heroines have been redrawn with less obvious curves and more obvious clothes. Comic Book Censor Charles F. Murphy, a former New York City magistrate, announced last week that his staff has already ordered revisions of 5,656 drawings, 25% involving the "reduction of feminine curves to more natural dimensions." Other changes: witchlike villains with wiry hair and fanglike teeth have been converted into subtler harpies...
...Judy Garland back on top of the heap as a musicomedienne; and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a high old roister-doister of a show, in which the legendary rape of the Sabine women, as adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet, was reset (with concessions to the censor) in backwoods Oregon, was larded out with some swell songs and dances...