Smut Hounds

Synopsis

It’s a story that made headlines: “Festival Film Banned!” In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were censored in some way or another. DELETE the lovemaking. CUT the ‘Open Mouth Kissing’. REMOVE the fondling of the breast sequence. Deemed too ‘inappropriate’ and ‘morally corrupting’ for Australian eyes, these scenes were hacked from feature films and locked away in government archives. When young Sydney Film Festival director David Stratton attempted to program a Swedish film that the censors believed contained ACTUAL sex, a scandal erupted. In a mash-up of never-before-seen banned clippings, SMUT HOUNDS tells the story of how seventy-seven seconds of celluloid scandalised a government and transformed Australian cinema.

Main Cast

David Stratton

Self

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Sari Braithwaite
Writing	Writer	Sari Braithwaite
Camera	Director of Photography	Richard Kickbush
Production	Producer	Britt Arthur
Editing	Editor	Florence Holmes
Sound	Original Music Composer	Munro Melano
Department	Role	Name

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