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A.Z Associated Film Distributors cut this from 88 to 83mins (f) in 1981 in order to gain an R. The print released on Video Classics runs for 80min 39secs and on Palace Vibrant for 80min 07sec.

Emanuelle and Joanna

A 2646.80mtr (96m 44s) print was submitted to the Censorship Board in November 1980 by 14th Mandolin. It was passed only after 37.3mtr (81s) of footage was removed. The deletions were made to some of the sex scenes, which were described as:
Frequency: Infrequent
Explicitness/Intensity: High
Purpose: Gratuitous

The censored version received an R18+ rating due to sex, which was described as:
Frequency: Frequent
Explicitness/Intensity: Medium
Purpose: Gratuitous

The film went on to have a theatrical release, and was soon issued to tape on 14th Mandolin's King of Video label. The running time is 93m 22s (PAL), which seems to indicate that it is cut.

November 1985 saw 14th Mandolin receive an X18+ rating for a 109m VHS. The reason given was:
Sex
Frequency: Frequent
Explicitness/Intensity: High
Purpose: Gratuitous

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

Up until the mid 90's this had never been issued on video in Australia. That was until Force Video released it as Emanuelle's Amazon Adventure. Under this title the film is a totally butchered TV print. A movie that was originally full of sex and violence could now comfortably gain an M rating. The Force release runs for 78min 48secs, compare this to the longest known release on the Dutch Video for Pleasure label and you find nearly 8mins of footage has been removed. See here for more information on what exactly is missing.

The first comes from 1992 when a VHS tape was forwarded to the OFLC, and conformed as RC.

More recently a US mail-order company have been warning their customers about customs problems with this title.

Quoted from Xploited Cinema website March 2006.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO UK CUSTOMERS - SOME OF THESE DVDS HAVE BEEN CONFISCATED BY UK & AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS. SOME HAVE MADE IT THROUGH BUT SOME HAVE BEEN STOPPED. ORDER AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Emanuelle In America

Emanuelle-Queen of Sados

This was finally given a video release in the early 90's when Force Video put it out under the alternate title of Emanuelle's Daughter. Running time is 89min 28sec.

Entrails Of A Beautiful Woman

One report of the U.S. Synapse DVD release being confiscated in 2005. Reasons given were:

One (1) DVD "Entrails of a Beautiful Women" depicting Non Consensual sex
the dvd was confiscated under the following provision "under subsection 203B(2), being goods suspected on reasonable grounds to be special forfeited goods"

Erotic Adventures of Zorro, The

This was first passed R18+ in February 1974. The 2883.4mtr (105min 23sec) print lost 206.55mtr (7min 32sec) of footage for reasons of indecency.

In 1974 the Queensland Government set up their own Films Board of Review. A article in a 1976 issue of Cinema Papers magazine covered the the workings of this overly repressive group. It includes the following quote from Errol Heath, the managing director of Regent Trading.

"The Erotic Adventures of Zorro was banned after having been screened for a period of six weeks and one day"

In the early 80's K&C Video released the film to tape. It was issued again in the late 80's on the Xtasy label. I have no further details as to the completeness of either version.

It was passed again in November 2004 with an R18+ (Sexual Violence, High Level Sex Scenes). This was released to DVD in February 2005 by Siren Visual Entertainment. The disc runs 102min 31sec. The only extra is a nearly 7min trailer, which contains much more graphic sex than the film itself.

Erotic Experiences of Frankenstein, The

In 1980 NS Prods P/L removed 1min 8sec of 'excessive violence' to gain an R rating. A cinema run followed with a duration time of 73min (f). No Australian video release.

Erotic Films of Peter De Rome, The

In March 2008, this early 70's collection of gay short films was refused film festival exemption for screening at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

The Melbourne Queer Film Festival special presentation of The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome has been denied exemption from classification by the Office of Film & Literature Classification and is unable to be screened at this year's Festival. Instead the session will be replaced with the Australian premiere screening of Whirlwind, directed by Richard Le May.

Whirlwind is LeMay’s second independent feature film and is a surprisingly subtle and honest depiction of 30-something gay men and the crossroads they encounter in their lives. It was the Winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature at Out on Film in Atlanta.

Festival Director, Lisa Daniel says, ‘The MQFF is terribly disappointed not to be able to show Melbourne audiences the Peter De Rome shorts compilation. It provided a fascinating contrast with contemporary gay erotic cinema, and De Rome’s art-house influence was obvious and inspiring. It’s a shame a film festival which only screens such sessions to adults must submit to the censorship of Government’.

People who hold tickets for The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome can use those tickets for Whirlwind, or go to the MQFF desk at the ACMI Box office from March 6 to exchange their ticket for another session, or for a refund.

THE EROTIC FILMS OF PETER DE ROME
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The session entitled The Erotic Films of Peter De Rome has been denied Classification Exemption by the Office of Film & Literature Classification Board, accordingly the MQFF is legally unable to screen the films.

Tickets for the Peter De Rome session can be used to see the replacement film Whirlwind, or a refund can be organised through the MQFF box office at ACMI Cinemas from March 6.

While access to pornography today is as easy as accessing a website, it hasn’t always been so. In earlier decades, film houses provided one of the only accessible forms of pornography in the moving image, and director Peter De Rome was a legendary pioneering figure in the industry in the 1960s and 70s. He’s perhaps best known for his full-length features Adam and Yves (1974) and The Destroying Angel (1976), but this rarely seen collection features eight short films shot between 1969 and 1974, and includes titles such as The Second Coming, Hot Pants and Double Exposure. De Rome’s shorts collection is a brilliant example of the intersection of artistry and eroticism in early gay pornography, and illustrates his interest in art-house films such as Jean Genet’s Un Chant D’Amour. By his own account, De Rome is just as interested in the full experience of intimacy (the desire, the chase, the passion), than just the sex act itself.

The MQFF is proud to present De Rome’s collection of shorts, and we thank Chicago’s Bijou Video for helping to make it happen.

Festival Director Lisa Daniel
“The decision was probably made on the basis on the erotic nature of the films; the OFLC have pretty stringent guidelines about what can be shown Ms Daniels later explained to MCV. “I have to say I haven’t got a problem with the OFLC overall; it’s to do with the structure of governing. It’s just a shame the government has to be involved in what is essentially an R-rated festival.”

A spokesperson from the OFLC told MCV she did not have specific information on why De Rome’s films had been denied exemption.

Peter De Rome’s film career started as a private affair. Picking up an 8mm camera in the mid-’60s, De Rome produced a set of painstakingly crafted, atmospheric sexual scenarios for the amusement of himself and his friends. After much urging, he entered one of the shorts, Hot Pants, to the 1971 Wet Dream Film Festival in Amsterdam. The film took first prize.

Hand and Hand Films producer Jack Deveau saw the films and convinced De Rome to collect several the shorts, blow them up to 16mm, and release them commercially as The Erotic Films Of Peter De Rome.

De Rome shot most of the films over a period of five years, in France, Spain, England, and the US. The edgy subway-sex study Underground was shot especially for the collection.

Double Exposure (1969, Fire Island, New York) A man spies a naked figure standing in a window. He enters the home, and from the top of a staircase he watches as the naked man writhes in pleasure on a sofa below. When he descends the staircase, the man has vanished.

Hot Pants (1971, New York) A naked black man dances and gyrates to a jazz soundtrack, then masturbates to climax. Long, extreme close-ups of the man’s bouncing genitals cause the viewer to see them in abstract rather than as part of the whole man, an effect that is both humorous and hypnotic.

The Second Coming (1970, London, Paris, Malaga, and Marbella) A naked man bound Christ-like on a cross is presented in various states of arousal. His hands are restrained and he cannot touch his penis, which constitutes a “punishment” for his desire.

Daydreams from a Crosstown Bus (1972, New York) A handsome, mustached man riding a city bus catches a momentary glimpse of a young man on the sidewalk, and his imagination spins out a rich romantic relationship between them.

Underground (1972, New York) Two men have sex on an actual moving subway train. One of De Rome’s most audacious projects, this short was a collaboration with Jack Deveau designed to push the envelope of acceptability and ratchet up the edginess of the collection as a whole.

Mumbo Jumbo (1972, London and New York) A sardonic little piece, and the most stylistic of the shorts in the collection. De Rome uses crass advertising techniques and jargon to objectify the naked male body.

Green Thoughts (1970-71, Kew Gardens, London) A celebration of lust in a wondrous garden setting.

Escape from Hell

Eunuch of the Western Palace

A 2593.00mtr (94m 46s) print was submitted to the Censorship Board in February 1980 by Mandarin Cinema Pty Ltd. It was passed only after 14.5mtr (32s) of 'Excessive Violence' was removed. The R18+ was awarded because of violence, which were described as:
Frequency: Frequent
Explicitness/Intensity: Medium
Purpose: Gratuitous

Evil Dead Trap

In 1997 a package sent from Holland containing Parts One and Two of this series was seized by customs. Both tapes were then sent to the OFLC in Sydney for classification. EVIL DEAD TRAP 2 was passed, whilst this first episode was rated RC. The refusal was due to scenes of extreme ‘snuff’ style violence, specifically where a bound and gagged woman gets her eyeball skewered in close-up.

Evilspeak

Thanks to Steve.L for the following extra details about the Australian Warner tape.

"During the scene in which the pig pulls out a piece of Miss Friedemeyer's stomach, there is a trim, deleting footage of it snapping. I suspect the OFLC did it, but I don't know. This is the only (completely pointless) gore cut in the Warner Bros. tape, and that shot is completely cut out of the U.S. "R"-rated version which has numerous other cuts to its discredit.

The remaining 11 minutes are basically dialogue-related, and were ditched from the U.S. theatrical release... and likely not by the director. So, I'm assuming, while Australia was given the complete 103-minute version for the theatrical run (barring whatever they did to it), when it came time to do the video, they were given a master of Moreno Co.'s chopped 92-minute version--before the MPAA cuts were made.

Incidentally, the Warner Bros.' tape has the best-looking print of "Evilspeak" I've seen to date.

Optus Movie Greats have been screening this throughout 2002. Due to the restrictions on showing R18+ rated features, this particular print (still with Warner logo) has been censored for an MA rating. The running time is 87min 49sec, and most noticeably is missing a couple of decapitations, the pigs pulling on the girls entrails, and the heart removal scene.

The UK DVD release from Digital Entertainment is also cut. According to the BBFC database it runs 95min 56sec, over three minutes short of a full running time.

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Exorcism

Global Film Distributors had this banned at 96min (f) in 1975. The following year it was cut to 92min and rated R. In 1994, under its alternate title Demoniac, Redemption had this banned in the UK. Unfortunately their short lived Australian label never got around to again testing this title with our own censors. Never released on video in Australia.

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