tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023545572453789968.post7793241647338701072..comments2023-05-26T04:27:01.792-05:00Comments on Col. Milquetoast's Blog: Erasing the PastCol. Milquetoasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02663068441544498425noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023545572453789968.post-2361194699020640822013-05-28T02:17:40.728-05:002013-05-28T02:17:40.728-05:00I hadn't thought of it when I visited here bef...I hadn't thought of it when I visited here before, but I believe I've seen both versions of that 1931 Frankenstein, and upon seeing the censored version had *felt* something like a scene with him tossing the girl in the pond was missing but had assumed I must have misremembered it!<br /><br />Thanks Deadman!<br /><br />- MJMMichael J. McFaddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12181949578184965482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023545572453789968.post-55772622015837637062013-03-26T09:59:58.288-05:002013-03-26T09:59:58.288-05:00Col., TRULY amazing collection! You must have put...Col., TRULY amazing collection! You must have put a LOT of work into this because it's something I've followed closely over the years and yet you dug up a good number of examples I'd never seen before.<br /><br />Well done!<br /><br />You should try a sub-page on video smoking censorship of various types. E.G. Sherlock Holmes has now had his pipe replaced with Big Pharma Approved nicotine patches, Dexter's smoking sister has quit her evil ways and now we're treated to smokers mainly being limited to a group of pedophiles living under a bridge, and in India(?) they're going through old films and replacing cigarettes etc with cute little CGI pictures of flowers. <br /><br />George Orwell must be spinning in his grave! <br /><br />OH! I just remembered two examples you've left out, though I don't have picture links: FDR minus his ever-present cigarette holder (I believe it's been done in photos, but know it's been done in a sculpture in D.C. someplace.) and Oscar Wilde(?) who has a statue that someone regularly vandalizes, spending hours sawing off Oscar's bronze or steel cigarette into oblivion. See: http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/who_is_stealing_oscar_wilde_s_cigarette_1_87960<br /><br /> Amazing, eh? And sad.<br /><br />Michael J. McFadden<br />Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07060657565478833892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023545572453789968.post-32614686511604822832012-12-12T03:43:30.997-06:002012-12-12T03:43:30.997-06:00Another example of prudish bowdlerisation leading ...Another example of prudish bowdlerisation leading to even worse interpretations is the editing of “Frankenstein” (1931). The monster (Boris Karloff) encounters a farmer’s young daughter, who persuades him to play a game of tossing flowers into a lake in order to watch them float. When they run out of flowers, the monster picks up the girl and throws her into the lake, but she drowns. The confused monster is saddened when he realises that he made a terrible mistake. Subsequently, the girl’s father assumes that the monster killed the girl deliberately and stirs the peasants to seek revenge.<br />In the censored version, the monster wanders off with the girl—and then the father is carrying dead body. Clearly, the monster must have done something <i>really</i> depraved.Deadmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05012725254441170657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023545572453789968.post-40764342546342822302012-12-11T22:41:03.177-06:002012-12-11T22:41:03.177-06:00Bette Davis with cigarette airbrushed from her fin...Bette Davis with cigarette airbrushed from her fingers looks like she's shyly ordering drinks. Changes the whole effect. brucenoreply@blogger.com