New Zealand Gazette – 1988 – No. 51

Page 1132

✨ Film Censorship Decisions

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 51

LEFT COLUMN

Applicant	Maker	Title Silent(S) or Trailer(T)	No. of Copies	Gauge	Running Time Minutes	Reason for Refusal, Excisions, or Alterations	Decision and Cert. No.	Country of Origin	Remarks
Columbia Films (N.Z.) Ltd.	Columbia Pictures	Someone to Watch Over Me (T No. 2)	2	35 mm	2		G 1172	U.S.A.
Amalgamated Theatres Ltd.	Tibor Takacs	THE GATE	?	35 mm	87		RP 0227	Canada	13 years and over unless accompanied by that person’s parent or guardian. Censor’s note: Content may disturb.
Video Promotions Ltd.	Bob Clark	BABY CAKES	400	½” VHS	80	s. 13(2) (c) anti-social sexual behaviour	R 1558	Canada	18 years and over. Censor’s note: Explicit sexual content may offend.

Monday, 11 January 1988

Applicant	Maker	Title Silent(S) or Trailer(T)	No. of Copies	Gauge	Running Time Minutes	Decision and Cert. No.	Country of Origin
Touchstone Films	Leonard Nimoy	3 MEN AND A BABY MY LIFE WITHOUT STEVE	16	35 mm	103½	GA 0593	U.S.A.
N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.	Jillian Leahy		1	16 mm	52	GA 0594	Australia
N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.	Carole Sklan	Fifty Fity	1	16 mm	28½	GY 0487	Australia
N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.	Solrun Hoass	At ‘Edge’	1	16 mm	21½	GY 0482	Australia

Tuesday, 12 January 1988

| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.| Ken Cameron | FAST TALKING | 1 | 16 mm | 93 | | RP 0228 | Australia | 13 years and over, unless accompanied by that person’s parent or guardian. |

| Warner Bros. (N.Z.) Ltd. | Mount Company | Frantic (T No. 1) | 40 | 35 mm | 1 | | G 1173 | | |
| Columbia Films (N.Z.) Ltd. | Peter Yates | SUSPECT | 1 | 16 mm | 121½ | | R 1559 | Canada | 13 years and over. |
| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.| Chen Kaige | YELLOW EARTH | 1 | 16 mm | 90½ | | GA 0595 | China | Chinese dialogue, English subtitles. |
| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.| Jack Fisk | RAGGEDY MAN | 1 | 16 mm | 94 | | R 1560 | U.S.A. | 16 years and over. |
| Kerridge Odeon Film Distributors | Vestron Pictures Ltd.| Dirty Dancing (T No. 1) | 1 | 35 mm | 2 | | G 1174 | U.S.A. | |
| Columbia Films (N.Z.) Ltd. | Christopher Cain | THE PRINCIPAL | 1 | 16 mm | 110½ | | R 1562 | U.S.A. | Censor’s note: Violence and language may offend. |

Thursday, 14 January 1988

| Kerridge Odeon Film Distributors | Vestron Pictures Ltd.| Dirty Dancing (T No. 2) | 1 | 35 mm | 5½ | | G 1175 | U.S.A. | |
| Warner Bros. (N.Z.) Ltd. | Steven Spielberg | EMPIRE OF THE SUN | 20 | 35 mm | 154½ | | GY 0483 | China/U.K./Spain | |
| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.| Johnathan Darmme | MELVIN AND HOWARD | 1 | 16 mm | 94½ | | R 1562 | U.S.A. | 13 years and over. |

Friday, 15 January 1988

| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.| Tim Burstall | KANGAROO | 1 | 16 mm | 105½ | | RP 0229 | Australia | 13 years and over, unless accompanied by that person’s parent or guardian. |
| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.| John Sayles | LIANNA | 1 | 16 mm | 112 | | R 1563 | U.S.A. | 16 years and over. |

Monday, 18 January 1988

| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.| John Sayles | BABY IT’S YOU | 1 | 16 mm | 105 | | R 1564 | U.S.A. | 13 years and over. Censor’s note: Some language may offend. |
| Twentieth Century Fox Distribution (N.Z.) Ltd. | New World Pictures | Hellraiser (T No. 1) | 9 | 35 mm | 1½ | s. 13(2) (c) anti-social behaviour | RP 0230 | U.S.A. | 13 years and over, unless accompanied by that person’s parent or guardian. |

Wednesday, 20 January 1988

| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.| Michael Cacoyannis | THE TROJAN WOMEN | 1 | 16 mm | 112 | s. 13(2) (e) foreign classification | GY 0484 | Greece/U.S.A. | |
| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.| Kevin Brownlow/David Gill | UNKNOWN CHAPLIN | 1 | 16 mm | 165 | | GY 0485 | U.K. | |

Friday, 22 January 1988

| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc.| Yajiro Takita | COMIC MAGAZINE | 1 | 16 mm | 117½ | | RP 0231 | Japan | 16 years and over, unless accompanied by that person’s parent or guardian. Japanese dialogue, English subtitles. |

RIGHT COLUMN

Applicant	Maker	Title Silent(S) or Trailer(T)	No. of Copies	Gauge	Running Time Minutes	Reason for Refusal, Excisions, or Alterations	Decision and Cert. No.	Country of Origin	Remarks
United International Pictures (N.Z.) Ltd.	Universal Pictures	Cry Freedom (T No. 1)	2	35 mm	3		G 1176	U.K.

Tuesday, 26 January 1988

| Twentieth Century Fox Distribution (N.Z.) Ltd. | Amy Jones | MAID TO ORDER | 1 | 35 mm | 94 | | GY 0486 | U.S.A. |
| Twentieth Century Fox Distribution (N.Z.) Ltd. | Amy Jones | Maid to Order (T No. 1) | 1 | 35 mm | 2 | | G 1177 | U.S.A. |

Wednesday, 27 January 1988

| N.Z. Federation of Film Societies Inc. | Errol Morris | GATES OF HEAVEN | 1 | 16 mm | 82 | | GA 0596 | U.S.A. |
| Twentieth Century Fox Distribution (N.Z.) Ltd. | John Glen | THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS | 1 | 16 mm | 130½ | | GY 0487 | U.K. |

Thursday, 28 January 1988

| Kerridge Odeon Film Distributors | Danny DeVito | THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN | 1 | 35 mm | 88½ | | GA 0597 | U.S.A. | Censor’s note: Some language may offend. |
| Kerridge Odeon Film Distributors | Michael Ritchie | THE COUCH TRIP | 1 | 35 mm | 98½ | | GA 0598 | U.S.A. |

PDF embedding disabled (Crown copyright)

View this page online at:

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1988, No 51

NZLII — NZ Gazette 1988, No 51

Parliament House (depicted) was completed in 1918 and remains the primary seat of Parliament.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🎓 Chief Censor’s Decisions on Films (continued from previous page)

Domain🎓 Education, Culture & Science
KeywordsFilm Censorship, Decisions, Film Titles, Classification

As the Gazette has been published for more than 185 years, copyright status depends on the publication date of each issue:

1840–1925 (Public Domain): Issues of the New Zealand Gazette and Provincial Gazettes from this period are in the public domain, as the term of Crown copyright (100 years) has expired. Mechanical reproductions (e.g., scanned PDFs) of these public domain documents do not attract new copyright.
1926–1999 (Crown Copyright): Issues from this period remain subject to Crown copyright. Usage of these issues in this project is "Fair Dealing" for research purposes and consistent with the spirit of the open-access principles championed by NZGOAL, ie, "The default licensing position under ... NZGOAL is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence ... [t]o the greatest extent possible, agencies should apply this licence to copyright material on their websites"
2000–Present (CC-BY 3.0 NZ): Gazette issues published on gazette.govt.nz are Crown copyright but are explicitly licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence (CC-BY 3.0 NZ). This project redistributes this content in accordance with those terms.

Nothing in this project is intended to infringe copyright, trademark law or personal privacy. Please contact me immediately if you have any concerns.

Third-Party Content

Where third-party content (e.g., notices submitted by external organisations) is identified within the Gazette, users should satisfy themselves regarding the copyright status of that specific content, as it may be subject to different ownership terms than the Gazette itself.

Sources and Attribution

NZ Gazette Sources

The primary sources for the issues of the NZ Gazette indexed by this project are:

New Zealand Gazette Archive, provided by Victoria University Library, copyright 2008 LexisNexis NZ Limited, Crown Copyright of New Zealand Gazette Office
- Issues from 1841-2008, including the New Munster, New Ulster, and Provincial Gazettes
New Zealand Gazettes by New Zealand Legal Information Institute (note: "NZLII is not the copyright owner in the source documents published on NZLII")
- Issues from 1913-1999
Gazette.govt.nz, Crown copyright / licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under CC-BY 3.0 NZ
- Issues from 2000-2017

Additional Sources

Wellington City Recollect have made available a comprehensive and excellent-quality scan of the Wellington Provincial Gazette which was used to fill in a number of issues missing from Victoria University's Gazette Archive; in particular, all 1856 issues, issues 22-34 for 1864 and issues 9-19 for 1870.
27 issues of The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette (1840) were sourced from Papers Past (public domain).
Gazette Extraordinary No. 1 (1840), held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Imaged by Luke Howison at the National Library reading rooms; PDF released into the public domain.

PDF Icon

The PDF PDF Icon was made by Good Ware, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Masthead

The logo in the header is an edited version of “Winning Coat of Arms Competition Entry, 1908” by Archives New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 (found via Wikipedia).

Who made this?

I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have created several websites for genealogical research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.