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What Shocked the Censors
shorts
(Of Four Reels or Less)
AFRICAN MYSTERY MA Y, 1932
Eliminate flash of native child where sex is shown.
AIR MAIL MYSTERY No. 1 MARCH, 1932
REEL 2. — Eliminate distinct views of bandits on horseback holding up mail plane and italicised words: "All right, stay where you are. Get 'em up and keep 'em up."
Eliminate distinct view of bandit in plane taking cap off bomb and throwing it on car.
Eliminate repeated views of bandit throwing bombs on car.
AIR MAIL MYSTERY No. 2 MARCH, 1932
REEL 1. — Eliminate all views of man in plane when grenades are distinctly shown (2).
Eliminate views of grenades as man throws them (2).
Eliminate views of men actually taking sacks of gold and loading them into car (2).
Eliminate: "I'm going to get that gold."
REEL 2. — Eliminate italicised words: "Um-hum, you're right. Scatter your mounted men through the hills. That's the spot I'm going to send him down"
AIR MAIL MYSTERY No. 9 MA Y, 1932
REEL 2. — Eliminate distinct views of hand operating electric switch (3). (This electric current is used to extort knowledge from captive girl.)
AIR MAIL MYSTERY No. 10 MA Y, 1932
REEL 1 . — Eliminate view of man actually operating lever on electric device. Eliminate actual view of note of extortion from Black Hawk.
ALUM AND EVE AUGUST, 1932
REEL 2. — Eliminate close and distinct views of mask on patient's face (2), and view of liquid dropping on it.
Eliminate view of label on can, marked "Ether".
ANY OLD PORT FEBRUARY, 1932
REEL 2. — Shorten to a flash of two feet, view of man loading boxing glove with large spikes.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 18 MINUTES JUNE, 1932
REEL 2. — Eliminate: "1 beg your pardon — as I was saying when I — Oh, oh, I'm sorry! I'm sure you will imagine my — / thought those clams were house-broken."
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