barry@ames-lm.UUCP (Kenn Barry) (05/14/84)
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I, too, have found some of the editing of hard-X-rated films
for cable hilarious. Various techniques seem to be employed, including
the outright cut (cable showings of some of these films run under one
hour), alternate soft-x footage, and repeating softer footage in loops.
But my favorite is cropping; one sex epic I saw on cable had about 5
uninterrupted minutes of featureless pink on the screen, accompanied
by the usual moaning sound track. I couldn't even figure out what part
of the body this super-crop was displaying.
Did you say they're no longer bothering to edit these things
in LA? They still do, here (Bay area). Ah, Sin City! I miss you!
Kenn Barry
NASA-Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA
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Electric Avenue: {dual,hao,menlo70,hplabs}!ames-lm!barryroot@vortex.UUCP (05/18/84)
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--