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Subject: edited films on cable
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 00:18:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 00:18:20 1984
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As has already been pointed out, pay-tv operators get their films
from various sources, and considerable cutting and re-editing may
already have taken place before that time.  Most pay-tv operators
are honest when they say that THEY don't cut the films.  Ahem.

In the early days of "adult entertainment" levels out here on the
L.A. subscription (over-the-air scrambled) pay TV services, it was
hilarious to see how films were edited (by the distributers) to take
them from X to R rating.  In some cases, a normal print must have
been edited -- since the picture would change a couple of seconds
before the sound track (just like a typical film break) when the
"juicy" stuff was removed.  You could predict when such jumps would
occur also -- usually as soon as the camera started moving down
past the belly button.  Of course, nowadays there're not so concerned
about editing out most such material out here -- pretty much anything
goes right up to the borderline of hard-core "X" (which is actually
a pretty specifically defined border, by the way...)

--Lauren--