MINISTER
OF
CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Paris, Dec. 8th, 1971
0531
Sirs,
You have solicited the benefit of a revision of the measure of total interdiction
taken in regard to the American film "HOLLYWOOD U.S.A." (MONDO
HOLLYWOOD) by the decision of April 2, 1968
by the Commission of Control; which decided that the film in consideration
presented an apologia for a certain number of perversities, notably: drugs.
Your request is based upon the important changes recently made to the original
version of this production; which has been submitted - in its new version
- to examination by the Commission of Control, first to the sub-commission
on November 8, 1971, and then to the plenary session on December 2.
This
last session of the Commission, concluding that the film, having been completely
changed from the version which motivated the 1968 total interdiction,
unanimously proposed the lifting of all restrictive measures.
Based
upon the above, I wish to inform you of my decision to grant the film -
in the version examined by the Commission on December 22, 1971 - a permit
authorizing its exhibition to the general public.
The administrative document, the exhibition permit, will not be delivered
until you have completed the required formalities (payment of exhibition
tax, presentation of importation license, certificate of origin, etc).
I beg
your agreement, Sirs, to my expression of sincere sentiments.
(Signature)
Jacques
DUHAMEL
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Note:
Although not a single frame of the film had been changed, the "Commission
of Control," previously influenced by Madame DeGaulle, was now under the
new Minister of Culture, Jacques Duhamel, a former cameraman.
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