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"Remember Kate Winslett posing nude in Titanic?" Rice asked, while demonstrating what the Movie Mask software can do on a wide-screen television set. Winslett appears in a corset and it looks as real as if she was outfitted in the real thing. But here's where it gets interesting. As the camera pans down from her body, the picture she is posing for now shows her in the corset.

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This ABC news story about software that turns any movie into PG fare has a problem: How to compare the actual version of a scene with the "altered" version of the same scene when, to not fall afoul of American taboos, Disnews must alter the image that represents the unaltered image?