 This film was granted a screening permit after being presented to  the Board of Censors as the dream of a madman. Opening at Studio 28  in Paris in October 1930, word spread about the films bizarre  content. On the evening of 3 December 1930, the fascist League of  Patriots and other groups began (halfway through the film) to throw  purple ink at the screen, then rushed out into the lobby of the  theater, slashing paintings by Yves Tanguy (I) (qv),  Salvador Dalí (qv), Joan Miró (qv), and Man Ray (I) (qv). The  producers of the film, Le Vicomte de Noailles (qv) and  Marie