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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:28

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On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 12:50:42 -0700 (PDT)
hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> On Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 3:00:04 AM UTC-4, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 
> > 	What's really amazing is that at the time (well into the 1970s
> > too) it wasn't noticable it was just normal.
> > 
> > 	One of Arthur C Clarke's books had a character whose job was
> > editing the smoke and cigarettes out of old films so as not to offend
> > modern sensibilities. It seemed unlikely when I read it, recently I read
> > that there are people doing just that today - score another one for
> > Arthur!
> 
> In old works shown on TCM and the rerun channels (e.g. METV) lots
> of people are shown smoking.  I'm surprised they would bother editing
> it out.

	I don't think it's done much, I wish I could recall where I saw it
mentioned - probably in the context of an AI algorithm to help.

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