What shocked the censors! (1933)

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What Shocked the Censors M MAN FROM YESTERDAY JULY, 1932 REEL 2. — Eliminate close view of ether mask over face of patient and liquid dropping from bottle. MANO A MANO FEBRUARY, 1933 REEL 4. — In sequence of cock fight eliminate all views (20) where birds are shown maiming each other. (54 feet eliminated.) MAN THEY COULDN'T ARREST MARCH, 1933 REEL 6. — Eliminate italicised words: "You're God-damned lucky to have got away with your life, if you ask me." Eliminate close view and distinct views of man pressing handkerchief against man's mouth until he becomes unconscious. MARK OF THE SPUR FEBRUARY, 1932 REEL 5. — Eliminate view of John forcing window catch open and entering room with two men. Eliminate two views of John at safe. Eliminate view of John taking money from safe, and accompanying dialogue: "Come on, I got the dough." MASK OF FU MANCHU NOVEMBER, V)Sd REEL 2. — "Just a bell ringing — You can't move. You can't sleep. You will be frantic with thirst. You will be unspeakably foul." Eliminate scenes where Fu Manchu throws salt water on face of man who is bound, helpless, and being tortured by bell (2). REEL 4. — Eliminate all views of whip actually striking body of Terrance (5). (Strung up and being beaten.) REEL 5. — Eliminate all views of Fu Manchu letting snake actually bite arm of native (3), and eliminate scream of native following this scene. Eliminate scenes of Fu Manchu actually drawing blood from native's arm (2) (after snake has bitten him). Eliminate scene of native collapsing and being dragged away. Eliminate close views of Terrance bound to slab, struggling to escape (4). Eliminate close views where Fu Manchu injects hypodermic needle into Terrance's neck (2). (This allows long shot of scene). Eliminate sound of Terrance screaming in pain as this is done. REEL 7. — Eliminate all close views of Von Berg where spikes of torture machine come close to him (5), allowing flash as he is rescued. MATA HARI JANUARY, 1932 REEL 6. — Eliminate scene from where Rosanoff picks Mata Hari from couch, starting to carry her to room in background; eliminate the closing and the sound of the slamming of the door, and where she is taken in through the open door. REEL 7. — Shorten views of Andriani's men carrying Carlotta's dead body across the hall. "Rosanoff! That's the point. You were with him all last night. Dubois told me." 56