Same Poster Different Censorship
This type of censorship rating change on Australian posters has been mentioned before from time to time. During my years of film poster research I have noticed some examples, particularly during the 1950s, but I never kept a record of them. I intend to start compiling a list of examples as I look back through my poster image files but if anyone has any images they would like to share it would be appreciated.
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Most likely the case although newspaper advertising in some cases continued promoting the films release at various cinemas using the Not Suitable For Children classification.
Along with possible incorrect information supplied to printers from distributors or even human error at printers.
True As A Turtle was released in Sydney on the 19 / 12 / 1957 and the above newspaper classified is from The Canberra Timers newspaper, advertising the screening of True As A Turtle at the Star Theatre , Queanbeyan on the 4th & 5th of June, 1958 , five and a half months after the Sydney release and still using apparently unaltered original material with the Not Suitable For Children classification on it.
I don't know for sure except the image of the poster with the For General Exhibition snipe attached, available to view at the start of this thread, and all the remaining Cinema screening newspaper advertisements I have found all have the ( G ) rating appearing on them. As I said I don't know the reason for the two classifications but it is possible an appeal against the original classification was successful and original printed daybills where possible were altered with a snipe attached with the new For General Exhibition rating on them. In the case of the Queanbeyan screening there could have been an oversight in not altering the rating on the advertising.
I shudder to think which posters were cut up as years ago as film titles were not valued as they are today. I was recently told by a lady that a large number of the first Mad Max poster were given away free to promote the film around the time of the first film was released in Australia at a country NSW theatre. Of course not realising how valuable they would turn out to be decades later. Getting back to the censorship change if one has an example in their keeping you wouldn't know if to leave it or remove the snipe then. As mentioned before I would love to hear of any more titles with changes on them than we can list them here and hopefully in some cases throw some light on the reasons for the changes.
And there's another explanation....didn't expect that one!
Sorry, but what has been censored ? Have you more details to share ? They both just look like two countries slightly different designs to me.
As you can see the girl/girls had very little clothing.
Above is the US censored and the one with the green dress is the Dutch.
Does this help?
Sorry, sorry if this is a bit long...ooooooops