Monty Python's Life of Brian and Michael Palin alongside mayor Sue Jones-Davies (who portrayed Judith Iscariot in the film). However, before the showing, an Aberystwyth University student discovered that a ban had only been discussed by the council and in fact that it had been shown (or scheduled to be shown) at a cinema in the town in 1981. In 2013, a German official in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia considered the film to be possibly offensive to Christians and hence subject to a local regulation prohibiting its public screening on Good Friday, despite protests by local atheists. In New York (the film's release in
Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot a dramatization of history, rather than a travelogue. A pair of specially-designed theaters each seating 250 persons were built for showing the film, as part of the new visitors center being built at the time. It was previewed for an audience including the Governor of Virginia and members of the Virginia General Assembly on the evening of March 30, and formally opened March 31, 1957. In the early 1960s, the film was translated into several languages for personal speakers that could be used by international visitors. By the 1990s, the film was showing its age, with severe fading problems in