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That time I found the original uncut poster for a 1968 Polish film in a thrift store in Chicago
Had no idea the version we all know was censored until I saw the old poster with a scene that absolutely does not exist in any digital copy I could find, and now I'm wondering if anyone else has stumbled on discarded censorship artifacts like this in random shops?
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johnthompson1mo ago
Wait, that's not quite right about the censored version. Polish censorship in 1968 was mostly about political stuff, not scenes. They usually cut dialogue or changed subtitles, not entire visual moments. Like, they'd remove a reference to a general or a workers' strike, but they rarely touched the actual film footage. If you saw a scene on that poster that isn't in any digital copy, it might just be an artist's interpretation of a script draft. Poster artists back then didn't always have the final cut to work from. I've seen a few posters where the art shows something totally different from the movie, because the designer only got a rough outline or some stills. Still a great find though, posters like that tell their own story.
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