What shocked the censors! (1933)

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What Shocked the Censors F Eliminate view of Yashka on top of confessional booth throwing bible to the floor. "Hey, hey! Look! Cigarette papers." "fust tv hat we needed." "Let's have the tobacco, Grischa?" "Good cigarette paper — thin." REEL 5. — "From the bible, the book of cruelty and jealousy and wrath. The book in which the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children. The book from which all the merciless tyrannies of the world have taken their laws. "The bible! We've done with it. We do not need it." "Yes, look at them. The heritage of squalor and misery that you and your God have left us. We shall reclaim them." "Young comrades, forget the commandments of death, and bear in your hearts the words of life — of the Communist Revolution." "I, the State, am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have the stale Gods of outworn creeds before me." "Honor the State. The state is thy father and thy mother." "Thou shalt not kill, save at the bidding of the State." "Thou canst not covet thy neighbor's goods; they are thine as well as his. "Covet thy neighbor s wife. She is free if she choose to come to thee." "No man shall own any woman, nor any woman any man." "There shall be no such thing as one man for one woman." "Forget what this old fool has told you. Bear these new commandments in your hearts, young comrades of the Communist Revolution." REEL 6. — "Why? I'll tell you why. For the same reason that you used to come here." 45 CALIBRE ECHO MARCH, 1932 REEL 1. — Eliminate close view of gun held on man by masked rider, and accompanying dialogue: "Reach for the sky and don't look back." FOURTH HORSEMAN SEPTEMBER, 1932 REEL 1. — Eliminate "Come on. Hold 'em up and keep 'em up. Come on." Eliminate all views of men on horses holding guns on trainmen (2). Eliminate all views of "Softy" holding gun on trainmen in train hold up <3). . \ Eliminate scene where "Softy" shoots directly into window of mail train. FREAKS FEBRUARY, 1932 (Revised version) REEL 2. — Eliminate the episode that shows Venus moving her personal effects out of Hercules' cabin and all dialogue in connection with the scene as follows: "You're quit tin — is that it?" "Maybe I'm only foolin'." "Well, you're not quitting me — cause I'm kicking you out.'' "Oh" 37