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...Milan, Director Vittorio De Sica was "astounded." To Joseph Burstyn, the film's U.S. distributor, he cabled: "Picture circulates successfully whole world including England without ever meeting similar demands. As to girls' house scene, critics everywhere have stressed the delicate way same is conducted ... As to [the boy's] wall scene, once more its spirit and execution have been judged everywhere simply candid. May I recall that noble religious town of Brussels, Belgium, emblem is boy in said circumstances whose statue stands in one of its squares." Taking up the argument, Burstyn charged "a subtle form...
...Association of America, was waging a legal fight against movie censorship by states and cities. Yet The Bicycle Thief already had passed muster with the official censors of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.* Was the M.P.A.A. trying to be more censorious than the very censorship boards it was opposing? Distributor Burstyn planned an appeal to the M.P.A.A.'s directors and beyond them to the U.S. public...
Next he squelched Co-Producer Richard Aldrich's idea of sharing risks by bringing other producers into the deal: "The entrepreneurs must be a solid single firm taking all the profits and risking all the loss . . . Are you a man of business or a philanthropic distributor of rake-offs...
Into Atlanta's federal district court trooped legal representatives of Independent Producer Louis de Rochemont, who helped launch the "Negro-problem" movie cycle with his Lost Boundaries (TIME, July 4), and Film Classics, Inc., the picture's distributor. They asked for 1) an injunction against last summer's ban on the film by Atlanta censors (who found that it would "adversely affect the peace, morals and good order" of the city); and 2) a ruling that Atlanta's censorship laws violate the U.S. Constitution...
...stuck when the film's distributor, George I. Shafir of Manhattan, refused to contest it. In their annual report, the stubborn censors were still defending their decision: "Certainly the screen is no place for documentary subjects that are presented without truth and sincerity, and the sooner the board is enabled to cope with such abuses beyond legal .doubt, the better...