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...Your article on [Hollywood Censor] Joseph Breen's proposed cuts of The Bicycle Thief [TIME, March 13] disgusted me ... Such foolish and careless censorship of movies, one of our most important mediums of information, is dangerous...
...Breen is overlooking the place where his censorship could be most effective, the ordinary Hollywood film...
...Would [Censor Breen] advocate that portions be cut out from the canvases of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian or El Greco because they depict certain parts of human anatomy...
...still another yardstick, the Breen order seemed somewhat strange. As an outraged American Civil Liberties Union quickly noted, the production code office's parent body, the Motion Picture Association of America, was waging a legal fight against movie censorship by states and cities. Yet The Bicycle Thief already had passed muster with the official censors of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.* Was the M.P.A.A. trying to be more censorious than the very censorship boards it was opposing? Distributor Burstyn planned an appeal to the M.P.A.A.'s directors and beyond them to the U.S. public...
...Massachusetts censors fretted about the same scenes that offended Breen but ordered only a few seconds snipped from each - and only for Sunday showings. On weekdays in Boston, the original version is shown...