The 'pornography' of the movie
It was either 1959 or 1960 when my brother, sister and 2 neighbors friends when our parents dropped us off at our neighborhood movie house for a Saturday afternoon delight, cartoons, 3 Stooges, 2 movies and 50cents apiece for soda, candy and popcorn. We were there to see The Voyage of Sinbad and the 2nd flick was The Greatest Show On Earth. That night our parents were visited by our next door neighbors friends' parents who were angy that they took their children to see the Greatest Show on Earth, our family were "liberal Baptists" and they were "conservative Catholics", we were using the term of the times, Negroes and they were "All Americans", they had never had a problem with our ethnic differences before but it turns out that this movie was on the Catholic do not see list because of the skimpy attire worn by many of the circus performers used throughout the film.
This caused a riff between the families, even though our parents apologized despite disagreeing, the other parents were angry because although they were told their children were going to see Sinbad, they didn't know what was the 2nd feature. I can't recall if we did or not, we knew about Sinbad though as it was the talk of our cousins and friends, adults and children, we were from 7 to 11 years old. After that us pre-teens had little contact and then next summer the family moved across town from the intergrated side to the all-White part of Pasadena. Interestingly after high school both of our neighbor's children became hippies, wild in the streets. the girl became an unwed mother at 18 and her older brother eventually became a 2nd rate rock musician and moved to Oregon. I haven't seen nor heard from either one of them since the late 70s. My younger brother and sister like myself are all happily married family oriented home owners still living in our home towns