October 30th, 1975: Sensations Gets Banned in France!       All over the world, the continuing wave of success is amazing. The German Parliament concedes legalization that same year 1975, and "Sensations" outclasses the combined box-office of "Deep Throat" and "Emmanuelle". In France, 220 exhibitors book the movie with great profit expectations, but on October 30, 1975, the French government bans foreign X-rated movies in France, just to stop Lasse Braun and Rueben Sturman from changing the world. December 1976: French Blue Gets Banned in Holland!       In June 1976, "French Blue" opens at the modern 400-seat City cinema in the central Leidseplein of Amsterdam. It was the first time that a hard-core sex film is shown in a regular theater. But the film, despite its striking success among the Dutch public, is anarchic and offensive for any regime. After 26 weeks of full-house at the City, as Christmas approaches and the City cinema owner is ready to sign a 5-year contract with LB to get the theatrical rights of his movie for Holland, the Dutch Minister of Justice, Van Acht (a Christian Democrat) bans "French Blue" from the City. Disregarding the great liberal tradition of his people, Van Acht exhumes a law of 1880 which forbids public gatherings if thereีs a risk of fire, and forces the movie out of the City. The goal is to push such dangerous movies as "French Blue" and "Sensations" in the ghettos of small houses with less than 50 seats, mostly owned by shadowy figures of the Dutch underworld. More LB Photographs