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The letters BBFC used to stand for British Board of Film Censorship. This
was abolished in 1970. The chief Censor,John Trevelyan was frequently
interviewed on TV saying that he didn't like telling people what they
could watch but someone had to do it.
For a few years, censorship was carried out in cinemas by watch
committees, meaning that a film which you couldn't see in one town could
be shown uncut in another. This made some towns very popular :-)
There were many programmes on TV which just cannot be shown today. The
BBC's 'Wednesday Play' could get very racy.
This lack of censorship didn't seem to harm anybody BTW.
The BBFC renamed the British Board of Film Classification, reappeared in
the 1980s; in many ways, more restrictive than before, probably due to the
influence of the feminists.
OFCOM is now in charge of censorship on TV. It is quite amusing to see a
programme about,say, the porn industry with blobs of steam and/or
pixelation over bits of the picture they don't want us to see. A good
example of this is a programme called 'S*xetra'. It just isn't worth
watching. Personally, if I see a programme with the word 'seks' in the
title, I just don't watch it. It has become a matter of habit.
I am not particularly interested in porn, I actually prefer Sci Fi but I
do feel very strongly about censorship.
As for the banning of films containing scenes of people using CB. I was
very active on CB from the late 70s to the late 80s. I started clubs and
tried to get the law changed. We had our sources and there were reports on
TV. Everyone knows they would never lie. The fact that Convoy and The
Dukes of Hazard were banned from 1979 on, especially just before
elections, was mentioned on the TV news. Another programme which was
banned three months before a general election in those days was 'Spitting
Image' mainly because it poke fun at Maggie Thatcher, who was a very easy
target. Spitting Image went out world wide so I suppose most countries
have seen it. They frequently poked fun at Ronald Reagan who was the US
Prez at the time.
I belive it was very popular in America.
About the only thing that upsets me is being called a liar or suffering
from self delusion. I hope I haven't hit the 6K BTW.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7FCR
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