Ulf asks:
"I'm currently working on a popular article on the theme 100 years of film - 100
years of film censorship. Even if its mainly focussed on the Swedish censorship,
I'd like to include the ea rliest case of a film being banned known to man. The
first film I know about is the british "cheese-film" of 1898, as told about in
Tom Dewe Mathews's CENSORED. There must have been older incidents, and who is
better to ask than the prominent circle around SCREEN-L."
 
As understand it, Edison's "The Kiss" was banned (or at least denounced) is
in some places.  That's almost as early as it gets!
 
Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
 
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