Tracking Shots
Close Ups on NZ Film History
A House Divided
“Restricted to persons aged eighteen years of age and over in segregated audiences.”
This was the curious restriction placed on the British movie Ulysses by New Zealand censor DC McIntosh in 1967. Censors had been ruling on what films New Zealanders could see since the first one was appointed in 1916.
By 1939 Stanhope Andrews was able to observe that local censorship was fairly liberal confining “itself chiefly to bosoms and bad words.” But Ulysses? McIntosh claimed that he “wouldn't have liked any of my women folk to been at the men's session and I'm sure they wouldn't have enjoyed it either.”
So it was one screening for James and another for Joyce.
