Orson Welles -- speaking about censoring comics (1955) 0

[adamstrange]

 

[path4play]

34 minutes ago, adamstrange said:

 

 

Nice find, thanks for sharing. 

[Sqeggs]

Interesting.  Seems as if it might be an interview he gave to a BBC panel.  He actually seems a bit ambivalent on the subject.  Appears unfamiliar with horror comics and unsure whether they should be censored.  For some reason, it seemed like an important issue to the panelists. 

[Jayman]

I like when he shut up the interviewer when he mentioned Poe! 

[Yorick]

Gaines' testimony in the senate juvenile delinquency hearings is also a fun one.  I re-read that every year.  Too bad there's no video of the hearings (or is there?)!

[jpepx78]

2 hours ago, Yorick said:

Gaines' testimony in the senate juvenile delinquency hearings is also a fun one.  I re-read that every year.  Too bad there's no video of the hearings (or is there?)!

More video of the 1954 hearings exist somewhere but here is a 54 second clip of Gaines' testimony.

http://www.budgetfilms.com/clip/19513/