Music

The centenary of censorship

12:16 pm on 6 November 2016

To celebrate 100 years since the first film screenings in New Zealand Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision is screening bits that previously didn't get screened.

This month the exhibition Censored looks back at censorship from the era of World War I to today.

Among the highlights are four films that were banned outright for wildly different reasons – Mad Max, The Wild One, All Quiet on the Western Front and Battleship Potemkin – and a mash-up of lots of censored bits from a century of film.

Simon Morris takes a look back (and forward to) censorship and film classification with Chief Censor Dr Andrew Jack, Andrew Cornwell from Sony Pictures, and Nga Taonga Sound & Vision's Diane Pivac.

Listen to the discussion