The film board, largely through its regional offices, issues certificates allowing the screening of a movie after local censors have cleared it.

"Sometimes they do have trouble with local censors," Melody said somewhat feebly.

When other local censors refused to release the edited version, the Hays Office sent Jason Joy around to ensure them that the cycle of gangster films of this nature was coming to an end.

Although it was well received by the audience, local censors feared that the revealing costumes and provocative dances might compromise public morals.

The industry put forward its own arbiter to head off thousands of local censors in the wake of the murder charges brought against Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle.

And even Chinese journalists, when their reports of corruption are killed by local censors, have sometimes posted their banned articles on the Web, insuring national exposure and public pressure for answers.

Many of the graphic scenes between Hyde and Ivy were cut by local censors because of their suggestiveness.

The content of the act varied due to restrictions set in by local censors.

When local censors banned a show in 1965, he raised money for legal fees by staging a benefit in a loft.