Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unexpected additions to the censorship list came with a warming in the cold war. Egypt now rejects all slightly anti-communist films with the argument that there is no communist party in their country, and therefore no need for the propaganda. India has banned movies like "The Red Danube," and rejected newsreels that showed Stalin's death in "somewhat capitalistic" light. The French kept out "Hell and High Water" until certain controversial figures were eliminated, and Finland has recently banned "The Peking Express" and "Night People...
Besides the general censorship trends, each country has its own individual peculiarities. Iran's potentates 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...
With State Supreme Court action still pending on its case to test the constitutionality of the Massachusetts Sunday censorship laws, the Brattle Theater announced yesterday that it has been refused a license to show the German movie "Desires" tomorrow...
...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...
...into the other arts also. Music should be simple enough so that it may be whistled; painting must be realistic; likewise sculpture and movies. As government controls industry, it also controls the output of books. It makes sure there is no "Ulysses" being published by using a very strict censorship...