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On Wed, 29 Nov 1995 17:22:34 +1000 Kate Bowles said:
>This film (dir. Jarmusch, and starring Johnny Depp, Robert Mitchum, Gabriel
>Byrne and John Hurt) has been refused classification in Australia. I'm
>curious to know whether anyone has seen it, and whether it has met with
>classification problems in any other country?
>
>I think this question has come up before, but can anyone remind me of early
>precedents of the tactical inclusion of censorable scenes in the
>expectation that cutting them will protect the rest of the movie? (_Casino_
>is apparently one recent example).
>
>Thanks
>
>Kate Bowles
>Screen Studies
>University of Wollongong
>
 
Bargaining over cuts in debatable material has a long history going back
at least to the 'thirties and the Production Code Administration
("the Hays Office").
 
A possibly apocraphal story has it that the Joe Breen, the Code
administrator in the Hay Office, insisted on the deletion from a
script of the line: "From off-screen there is a scream of a naked
woman."
 
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