Topical Guide 877
Mark Dorset
Performance
Leaving Small’s Hotel, Chapter 2:
I sank instantly into a foul mood, and I was still in a foul mood that evening, when the time came to read the second installment of Dead Air.
Here is Kraft’s reading of the episode from Chipps & Company’s series of readings from Leaving Small’s Hotel for LTV Studios:
Publications: Educational: Nudist Magazines
Spike might have had a copy of Sunshine & Health:
Or she might even have had an old copy of the 1948 Christmas issue of Natural Herald:
Censorship
Leaving Small’s Hotel, Chapter 2:
Grinning, Spike produced a folded magazine from her back pocket.
After we had looked at the pictures very thoroughly and tried to explain how the photographer had made the black rectangles stay in place on the people’s faces, fatigue settled over us, and we ran out of conversation.
Wikipedia, “Censor Bars”
Censor bars, also known as black bars, are a basic form of text, photography, and video censorship in which “sensitive” information or images are occluded by black, gray, or white rectangular boxes. These bars have been used to censor various parts of images. Since the creation of digital editing software which can apply less obtrusive effects such as pixelization and blurring [censor bars] are typically used for satire, although they remain in contemporary use to address privacy concerns.
For example:
In the days of film photography, the censor bars would have been added in the printing process. They were not, as Peter and his pals seem to believe, physical bars that were somehow attached to the models before they were photographed.
However, now that censor bars are “typically used for satire,” wearable bars are widely available. They can be worn like sunglasses. For example:
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