When the dreadful film Titanic came out on VHS one of the chain stores
(WalMart? Blockbuster? I can't recall which) was offering tapes with the
nude Kate winslet images & sex scenes cut out (cutting done by the retailer),
presumably so little children could see it. There was some rumbling of
protest from the distributor as i recall, but nothing came of it because it
was a major retailer and the tapes were selling well.
probably not the sort of thing you're after, but perhaps a telling parable.
reminded me of the priest ringing his bell in Cinema Paradiso.
Trish
>can you think of other presumably nonsensical cases of US video censorship
>in recent years?
>
>So many thanks.
>Yours,
>Simon Krysl
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