marty

Hi,

I Watched the region 2 DVD realease of Fahrenheit 451 last night and noticed something strange.

There's a scene where the firemen are searching people for books in a kids playground and at around 39:20 whatever is happening on the left hand side of the screen is blocked out by a black band which appears from the left and stays there for a few seconds and then goes away.

While this happens the musics gets a little dramatic too.

Is this something being censored out for some reason....It's the only explaination I can think of.

Does anyone who's seen this or has a copy of the DVD know why this is?

Thanks.

phil

Mark O could maybe help you out with this one?

narabdela

There's a thread on this on the imdb message board for the film.

AdrianTurner

As far as I recall it, this was a little stylistic flourish from Truffaut to indicate that Big Brother had censored part of that image, in keeping with the theme of the movie.

marty

Thanks for the replies,

I was hoping it wasn't some kind of post production censorship as seen in the first story of The vault of horror, but having read the thread on the IMBD forum all is explained.