In a discussion with a woman friend, now in her 90's, my friend was expressing her annoyance and disgust at the current sexploitation of young female actresses....Jennifer Lawrence, as an example......When she called, I was watching a 1934 film in which a 16-year old Ida Lupino runs around in satin underwear with her breasts enticing hunky Buster Crabbe, who also strips and showers for the voyeurs in the movie audience.......I thought about all those "pre-code" hollywood films.......Even the least prurient viewer looks through his fingers as he shields his eyes from the allure of enticement......(stills from the film, SEARCH FOR BEAUTY)

LOST BOUNDARIES

I had to take a break from watching the 1949 film LOST BOUNDARIES, directed by groundbreaking director Louis de Rochemont (http://www.seacoastnh.com/louis/filmography.html)...{http://www.seacoastnh.com/History/History-Matters/Louis-de-Rochemont-in-Hollywood-NH/} to reflect on the many attitudes and prejudices that I encountered as a child, growing up in Alabama...... That today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day is especially meaningful in the context of my mindset this morning, of course......Like so many other important Films, LOST BOUNDARIES was forbidden in Alabama, even though the movie won the 1949 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Screenplay.   [http://www.jstor.org/discover/4137151?sid=21105655477773&uid=2&uid=3739616&uid=3739256&uid=4]  A young friend of mine recently asked me why I was interested in "perspectives" of history.....since, like most youths of any generation, my naive' friend lives only in the pop culture of what's on base this very minute, forgetting even the events of the day before and giving little anticipatory interest to the past's predications of Tomorrow.......