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min.
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-O. HENRY.
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Next trip he wants to take
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then along comes this chimp with an apple in ane hand and a banana in the other ..
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1961.
FAR TOO CLEVERLY MADE TO FALL AFOUL OF OUR CENSORS- BUT THESE ARE 'SICK' FILMS...
LOVE IN THE SEWER
ABOUT a month ago, I spent the best part of a morning looking at a film, and when it was over the exhibitor asked me what I thought of it. My reply was "Disinfect the theatre."
He, to his credit, was of the same opinion, so that is one film you will not see in Hongkong.
and the film cut at that stage that account it is so easy to get hims reized by our local
where they performed as des- round it. cribed in "Lady Chatterley's
Lover."
Mind you, there was nothing in the Blm that related it the kinet gendarmes when they raid cockloft. The film in question was largely devotes to the story of a wom who was nis- (rers
and by profession seducer of youth by desire.
The
producer was far too clever to make anything that might
him in have landed trouble with the law. The exe characters were stripped down
By-
ANTHONY FULLER
CHINA MAIL FILM EDITOR
.not mean to say they might not non-attendance of women hag
try to build up a "slek" au-
come about through unneces- dience here for their "sick" Rnry close-ups in colour
and he went on to describe some Then, could myself be dead of the doubtful aspects of some wrong. Perhaps it is a streak Olma. of prudishness in me that cop- aiders such films disgusting.
However I am in good com pany, if for rensons different from my own. Martin Quigley, jr the editor of the influential trade Juuraal, the "Motion Pie ture Herald" has warned the American theatre
groups that
All that remains to say is that among the guests of the at which Mr Davis
function a
Certain words are taboo, cer- tain scenes are tabon. It is for Fully three-quarters of the that reason that certain works of art have languished in the fim was given to the approach collected dust of decades, while business, the other quarter
trash with lurid dealt with such seenes as the pulp paper
have fold readily and boy's own occupation in sedue covers ing a girl nearer to his own gally from the book stalls on
the Queen's Highway.
The law in regard to obscen-
to the maximum so permitted, it is hard to define, and on
P-14 WILL BLAZE A
TRAIL TO THE MOON
MERICAN scientists aro
preparing trail WORLD OF SCIENCE
blaze man's moon with
ta way
to the
a new kind of space probe. It is known simply as P-14. BLAST-OFF DATE: the end of month.
1
tho
The satellite
capstan shaped, noid will carry a 75: burden of instruments. It will be shot more, than half-way to the planet, then full back and burn up like a child's frework.
'Mapping' magnetism
by
Peter Fairley
radiation is very light Space over the poles, for instance, appears to be clear of danger,
Britons will join
The delicate instrument which will measure the magnetism is called, not surprisingly, a magnetometer. The one aboard P-14 will be the most sensitive But during its 50 or so hours yet built-1,000 times BIUTO of life P-14 is expected to prosensitive than the device in vide scientists with the no. ( Rusala's Lunik It which hit the accurate "map" yet of the field, moon, of magnetism around the earth. This magnelisin seems to al- tract highly radioactive space "dust" in a clearly defined pat- lern. The dust is trapped, a effectively as iron Allngs on 10 a conventional magnel, and forms thick bands of radlution.
These could be very hazardous to astronauts. unless their vehlelen pre heavily
British scientists at Jodrell Bank will join in tracking of the tiny gying capstan"
out in space, and take tape recordings of its radioed Information.
F-14 is the forerunner of n scrles
of spacecraft, called Rangers, now under design in the US. They will land arst chielded instruments, then men, on the with lead to buffer the radiu moon. Target dale? 1907. IL tion. But there may be "sale" may slip back a bit. But it
through the magnetic will happen.
paths Aelds
exil
where pasanges
(London Express Service).
Suggestive
To get back to the ln in question. There was nothing a censor could censor, legally Nothing Why exposed that should have remained hidden; nothing was said that should not be sald. Yet the whole flim stunk to high heaven. For it was suggestive, and if you ask me, suggestiveness la obscenity, while outspokeness is not
be
on unwarranted obsession with films which offend family taste will mean that the Ameri- can public will in turn becoine their own censors, and that responsible parents will lead their children away from pictures altogether. And if that Hop- pens. the cinema theatres cán put up the shutters.
No courage?
Why do I say that? Because Mr John Davis, the head of to outspoken is to hide the Rink Organisation, made nothing, white suggestiveness this reply to the long-hatred, Jeers like an aged prostitute in dirty-neck community, who a dark passage.
have appointed themselves the arbiters of British films. They 100 accused Ranks of being
Take one scene. The woman in her underclothes, the boy
minus his shirt. They embrace. Next scene, two pairs of failing legs.
Camera cuts.
Now if the same scene had been taken without the cut, and the camera had panned down the bodies to hold the scene of the legs, the producer would have been safely behind Lars by now.
Difficulty
That is the difcalty. There is utile doubt that these kind of films which attract a certain section of the public are enjoy- ing a minor vogue.
Two, to my knowledge, cash- ed in in Hongkong, but since then, nothing much has hap- pened. On the other hand, the companies making only this kind of film are not represented out here, and their prize efforts are not to hand. But that does
timid to follow certain sections of the Italian Alm making in- dustry.
Sala Davis: "On occasion I have been accused of many things. And one of them is that Pinewood Studios have no courage in making films. But
you make films at all you have to have courăge, because there are great risks Involved and large sums of money, If the people who accused me meant that we do not make long. drawn-out sordid films, then I am glad. Our results show that our policy is Justified."
He went on to point out that in Britain in 1959, 54 per cent of alt flm goers were women, In 1080, under 50 per cent of the audience were women, and during the same period, 54 per cent of the married women had stopped going to the cinemas.
He asked: "I wonder how
this- much responsibility for
the
made his speech were the heads of
and largest British American companies, or their representatives in Britain.
And the speech brought the house down!
Fortunately In Hongkong, TP have a fine censorship board, neither too timid ou one hand, and yet reasoning that adult fare is adult fare, But best of all, seeing when someone is trying to slip a fast one on them.
A shot from "The Fruit Is Ripe,” starring Scilla Gabel
Is this really necessary?
Scene from "Carolina,” starring Anne Aubrey.
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