Antedating of "Snuff Film / Movie"

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS was there, thirty-seven years ago:

1971 Ed Sanders _The Family_ (N.Y.: E. P. Dutton) 232: I, I, I knew, I know, I only know about one snuff movie.

Sanders is quoting somebody else, BTW.

JL


--- On Mon, 12/29/08, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:

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> The OED's first use of _snuff_, attrib., as in _snuff
> film_ or _snuff movie_ is dated 1975.  According to
> Wikipedia:
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> "The first recorded use of the term is in a 1971 book
> by Ed Sanders, The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's
> Dune Buggy Attack Battalion, in which it is alleged that The
> Manson Family might have been involved in the making of such
> a film."
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