cjh5801, Post 12 was well worth your doing and my reading, and I'm sure the other readers of this thread would agree with me on that.



It seems like the people of Kansas and even the Powers that Be in Kansas didn't like what the censor board was doing.



And, it was strange that the Kansas Censor Board continued as long as it did. (The firstime I saw 2,000 Maniacs it was a print that matched the description of what the Kansas Censors had done to that film, and that was in 1964 . David Friedman, in his bio, A Youth In Babylon, says that when Blood Feast was released, in 1963, that the ultra strict New York Censor board didn't give him any problems).



Maryland was the last state to dissolve its censor board 1979 being the last year the board issued reports, if my memory is correct. I have studied the Maryland board's reports for the 1970s, but I'm sure that some of the CHFB fans of these 2 threads would have a ball looking over the Maryland Censor Board's reports for 19331, If that state censor board was in existence at that time. I have not surfed the net to see how far back the Maryland board's records go.



Or, maybe one example of a censor board's attack on the 1931 Frankenstein is enough, and it is time to move on to other subjects. When I feel like getting out of my Lazy Boy Recliner chair, and walking over to my bookshelf and getting the book Banned Films, I will find the probably late 1940s court ruling that a film could not be banned for blasphemy.