First X rated British film?

[CaptainWaggett]

It's this one - maybe it was considered too dull for impressionable young minds?

IMDb - La vie commence demain (1952)

[Steve Crook]

Interesting. I've done a bit of a trawl through the Times and Manchester Guardian and can't find it mentioned. I wonder where the MEN got it from

Ah, it was in a newspaper. So it's no wonder that they got it wrong

Steve

[Steve Crook]

It's this one - maybe it was considered too dull for impressionable young minds?

IMDb - La vie commence demain (1952)

That could well be the one the MEN meant, and there is a Trivia item on the IMDb saying that it was the first film to get an X certificate. But if that was true then it would be recorded pon the BBFC site. They don't seem to have certified it

When was the article in the MEN? Did they just copy the data from the IMDb without checking it? Or did whoever submitted that to the IMDb copy it from the MEN without checking it?

Steve

[cassidy]

Merci et bonne nuite !!

It's this one - maybe it was considered too dull for impressionable young minds?

IMDb - La vie commence demain (1952)

[CaptainWaggett]

That could well be the one the MEN meant, and there is a Trivia item on the IMDb saying that it was the first film to get an X certificate. But if that was true then it would be recorded pon the BBFC site. They don't seem to have certified it

When was the article in the MEN? Did they just copy the data from the IMDb without checking it? Or did whoever submitted that to the IMDb copy it from the MEN without checking it?

Steve

As mentioned five posts above yours, the MEN article was last week...I doubt whether an 'On this day' column is going to do any in-depth research. The BBFC does give it an X certificate

Title « British Board of Film Classification

Of course the MEN could have done their research here

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/as...tish-film.html

[Steve Crook]

As mentioned five posts above yours, the MEN article was last week...I doubt whether an 'On this day' column is going to do any in-depth research.

Yes, I see that now. It was harder to scan back through the thread on my iPhone last night. There's no "search within page" facility

The BBFC does give it an X certificate

Title « British Board of Film Classification

Now that's odd, I'm sure I tried that title as well, and they said there were no matches. But that was from the iPhone as well

Of course the MEN could have done their research here

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/as...tish-film.html

Of course, the best source of information about films

Is there any indication that La vie commence demain was actually shown in the UK?

Steve

[Moor Larkin]

On This Day: The History of the World in 366 Days - Sian Facer - Google Books

The notion goes back to 1992 at least.

[CaptainWaggett]

I hadn't realised X certificates were for under 16s - when did it change?

[Steve Crook]

I hadn't realised X certificates were for under 16s - when did it change?

You had to be 16 or older to see them from 1951 to 1970. Then they changed it to 18 or older until 1982 when it was replaced by the 18 certificate

Steve

[CaptainWaggett]

You had to be 16 or older to see them from 1951 to 1970. Then they changed it to 18 or older until 1982 when it was replaced by the 18 certificate

Steve

Ah! I'm far too young to ever have seen an X

[cassidy]

It's confession time. I saw my first "X" in 1956 when I was 12 years old, wearing my late fathers jacket and coat. The New Bohemia, Finchley Central was where I saw "X TheUnknown" in a double bill with "Les Diaboliques" (the ending of which scared the hell out of me). I couldn't wait to tell all my mates. I also got into "Curse of Frankenstein", "Dracula" "Blood of the Vampire" and more. The only time I got foiled was "Quatermass 2" when my pal got his date of birth wrong..... Memories !!!.

You had to be 16 or older to see them from 1951 to 1970. Then they changed it to 18 or older until 1982 when it was replaced by the 18 certificate

Steve

[Steve Crook]

Ah! I'm far too young to ever have seen an X

But you remember those Méliès films from when they were first released

Steve

[sladdin]

I really started something with LIFE AFTER TOMORROW ah well keep checking the MEN could have got it wrong, and to be honest I have never heard of this film.

[CaptainWaggett]

I really started something with LIFE AFTER TOMORROW ah well keep checking the MEN could have got it wrong, and to be honest I have never heard of this film.

But the Manchester Evening News seems to be right. According to the BBFC site, La Vie Commence Demain was classified nearly two years before Cosh Boy. It was released in January 1951 and Cosh Boy wasn't released until 1953 (though there'd been a stage play earlier which also seems to have caused a kerfuffle)

La Vie Commence Demain

Cosh Boy