Show Talking Sequences Save Scenes From Shears of of- Film Censors By WADE WERNER HOLLYWOOD Cal AP Music AP-Music Music hath bath charms the tho producers of ot motion motion mo mo- nio- nio tion pictures are arc discovering to soothe tho the savage P 4 c censors Into withholding withholding with with- holding their sels- sels LY NOPE CANT ji I sors SOlS from scenes CUT u CUT CUT ir If T mE which otherwise be snipped I would f wOULD r THAT 11 WOULD I I out and l kept ept off oft f DROP TW MANY MAMY the screen SYLLABLES This does docs not mean nean that the II magic of pf- pf a Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Bee Bee- sonata can a a censor into forgetting g what he is seeing The situation is simply aim sim ply t ly this thI Pi Pictures tures sold to exhibitors as ns sound pictures must be shown l with synchronized orches orchestral ral accompaniment a and n 11 d sound effects as advertised otherwise otherwise other ther- wise the exhibitor c will be put put in the position of selling tickets under false pretenses But If several scenes are aro snipped out put of the tho film by state or city cens cen- cen s SOlS ors the tIle disk on which the tho sound effects were were so carefully recorded will bo ho thrown out of or line with the action Tl The e galloping galloping- of df horses' horses hoofs for example originally recorded amid a afew afew afew few bars of crashing Wagnerian music to acc accompany the escape of the tho villain main might aught instead make ridiculous a a tend tender r love scene ab in And the bellowing of fog horns Intended forthe forthe for forthe the shipwreck scene might instead where the heroine Is weepIng weepIng weeping weep weep- ing softly in her boudoir It might happen that all aU the thc sad music for the th sad scenes would be shi shifted ted to the comic scenes and nd vice versa by the removal of ot one objectionable scene in each reel So the censors in some sonic states making allowance for the predicament predicament ment of the exhibitor have permitted permit permit- ted too the the- synchronized version of a picture to bo be shown unchanged while at the same time they shortened shortened shortened short short- ened the tho silent version by hundreds of feet teet Producers have been warned however that this consideration for forthe forthe forthe the proper synchronization of music and sound effects effects' with action Is only a temporary concession SOmeway Someway Some Someway way of enabling censors to wipe out tho music and sound effects corresponding corresponding corre corre- to tho the deleted s scene ene must be found or or- producers and exhibitors exhibitors tors and public simply will win have to put up with whistles and words and soft music Where the music and sound ef- ef an and 1 dialogue are aro recorded photographically on the same film with tho the picture the censorship problem is is' not so acute for the cutting out of such a a scene auto- auto eliminates also als the ac accompanying accompanying ae- ae companying sounds But often th tOO censor has no de desire desire de- de sire to cut out a whole sc scene scene- ne- ne merely an objectionable word In inthe tho the middle of a sentence or the clothes the heroine Is not w wearing aring uttering highly important words So far no no convenient system of dealing with sith the situation has been devised b but t the hc producers' producers association association asso asso- elation here has called in sound recording recording re re- re- re cording engineers to work worle on the problem It is i hoped that these that these ex cx- will vill invent some simple way cay for tor censors to rub out profanity found amid th the dialogue and black blackout blackout out objectionable costumes or ac action actions nc- nc tion without throwing the pictures picture's synchronization out of gear Meanwhile so 50 long as the censors tee feet inclined to sympathize with the synchronization dilemma of or the exhibitor ex ex- the fate of ot any given scene In a picture will depend on whether or 01 not it Is accompanied b bl music |