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V7 OU will get a better idea of what is in the censors' mind in making A these cuts by these examples:
First, the two main groups censored are sex, crime and violence. They divide honors about evenly. Together they account for almost 90% of the total cuts. Sex subjects are censored not where immoral relations are shown, as they often are, but where they are shown in a favorable or too jocular light.
Typical cuts in sex subjects are the expressions: "want you", "left my youth in the capitols of Europe", "is she kept?" "spend the night with me", "live together", "twin beds", "cosy private rooms", "it wasn't love", "how soon do you return to me?", "long, lonely nights", "you cannot be without me", "you were with him all last night", "don't spend your money there, big boy", "those blondes light up the old place", "marriage needn't make any difference between us", "there's a man who's a hound with women", "this seductive business", "mistress", "harlot", "naked", "birth control", and "prostitute".
Among the scenes cut are kisses lasting more than four feet of film, passionate embraces, partially clothed men or women when the opposite sex is present, unmarried couples living together, the key to a young lady's apartment in the possession of a man not her husband, solicitation, dances of the "snake hips" variety, women's underclothing hung on a clothes line, lover making exit through window, wedding ring on finger of unmarried girl, a man carrying a woman in his arms through a doorway.
Nudity is regarded as indecent or obscene and particularly where sexual characters are shown. They are all cut out except in the case of dark skinned peoples. Nudity among African savages is regarded as proper, but not among nudists of the white race.
Cuts relating to crime and violence deal with the technique of crime and the actual commission of criminal or violent acts. Labels on bottles indicating criminal use, such as poison, veronal, chloroform, ether are cut out.
Cuts portraying the technique of crime are typified by the setting back of the hands of a clock to establish an alibi, the words "get rid of this evidence", the lighting of dynamite fuses (it's all right to see the fuse after it is lit), turning on the gas to commit suicide, handling the dial of a safe, and the expression "What we've got opens any combination."
All views are cut of money or gems actually passing into the hands of thieves. So are all views of such plunder being divided among them after the crime or the shake-down, and all references to gems, money, or other articles of value which are to be stolen. Criminal activities are cut out, together with their appropriate phrases, such as putting people "on the spot", threatening to "rub them cut", "stick 'em up". Pointing a gun, firing a gun, and even the sight of a revolver or machine gun are usually cut.
/^\F the 10% of the cuts which are not covered by either sex or crime, most
^^ concern politics. The censors are evidently determined that corruption
in public life shall not be suggested in the movies. Inefficiency and negli
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