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Yeah, yeah. Like in fact, today we had a policeman and the audience. They come in and they take still pictures of the films. Well, they take this to a judge along with a half a page memo of the titles of the film. And this is a

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great detail to go into. My point is to make a complete film. Uh, I put a lot of work into the soundtracks, into the editing and they come in and take a snapshot of it and say this is evidence. It's like comparing a newspaper to a

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television. It's a different medium. Motion pictures of intermittent intermittent action, not just a single frame. And just almost for that reason alone, we have to, I mean, it's only, I think it's gonna be really constitutional or fair to have a prior adversary uh, hearing so that

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we can preserve our side of the picture as well. Do you think any of the films you're showing our I've seen? Well, this is the point where we only speak for ourselves and the the O'Farrell theater. When we say this, we don't feel that they're obscene

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at all. In fact, we feel like I said before, they're very creative and they're what's happening today. The judge ended a preliminary injunction enjoining the police in san Francisco from arresting uh patrons and theaters. And we had a temporary restraining order before now, the preliminary goes

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into effect. And that effectively, I think will mean the end of the case that uh this is sort of the end of the road for the arrest of patrons of theaters in san Francisco. The reason that the judge gave for granting the preliminary injunction was based

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on a case of the United States Supreme Court which holds that the imposition of strict liability in the area of First Amendment rights is unconstitutional by strict liability. Uh The courts mean that you ask a citizen to to know the unknowable in this case, the citizen

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is asked to know that a movie he is about to see is obscene before he's seen it. That asks a bit much for anybody. Now, admittedly people didn't go to these movies thinking that they were about to see Snow White and the Seven dwarfs. But the

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definition of obscenity is a legal one, and it's a very complicated question, and judges have a hard time deciding themselves.