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Tin Drum Beats Obscenity ChargesSome 17 months after Oklahoma City police seized copies of The Tin Drum from six video stores and at least one private home, a federal judge has ruled that the 1979 Academy Award-winning film is not child pornography after all. "We will be ordering many additional copies—with great delight," Lee Brawner, director of Oklahoma County's Metropolitan Library System, told the Daily Oklahoman October 21. Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy, whose July 1997 suit had restrained the library, Blockbuster, and Hollywood Video from circulating the film, said he had "no idea what bearing" U.S. District Judge Ralph Thompson's October 20 decision would have on pending suits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and video stores. Although he called three scenes suggesting intimacy between minors "inappropriate for young viewers," Thompson decided October 20 that the film's overall theme—Nazi resistance in the form of a German boy who stunts his own growth—"is not sexual." |
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