The New Year opened with a mild display of public concern over what appeared to be a crass effort on the part of the film censor and the appeal board.

The Controversy arose when a list of the films which had fallen foul of the censor was published in the Wellington papers. And an interesting list it was.

At the time of the banning of The Collector a few months before, a letter to the Post from a band of enthusiasts at the National Film Unit had sparked off some discussion, and the public, perhaps for the first time, was learning something of the abysmal role that, film censorship played in New Zealand. Chief pundit in the later row was Professor Munz, who had a lengthy article printed in the Evening Post.