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Film Historian: 'Psycho' Altered Ideas On Censorship

from National Public Radio
June 18, 2010

The 50th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was this past week. The film was groundbreaking in many ways --including having been the first to show a toilet on-camera. Host Melissa Block talks with David Thomson, film critic and author of The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder.

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  • All Things Considered, June 18, 2010
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