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Why Elvis was filmed only from the waist up

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In the 1950s, a vibrating pelvis was basically considered a weapon of mass destruction. When Elvis appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the network censors were so terrified that his hip gyrations would spontaneously impregnate the youth of America that they strictly mandated cameras only film him from the waist up.

Why Elvis was filmed only from the waist up
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