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This scene from The Branding Iron (1920) was cut by the Pennsylvania film censorship board, which then banned the film for its topic of infidelity. [1]Film censorship in the United States was a frequent feature of the industry almost from the beginning of the U.S. motion picture industry until the end of strong self-regulation in 1966.
Pre-Code Hollywood is the era in the American film industry after the introduction of sound in the early 1920s [1] and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become effectively enforced until July 1, 1934.
Thou Shalt Not, a 1940 photo by Whitey Schafer deliberately subverting some of the Code's strictures. In the 1920s, Hollywood was rocked by a number of notorious scandals, such as the murder of William Desmond Taylor and the alleged rape of Virginia Rappe by popular movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, which brought widespread condemnation from religious, civic and political organizations.
Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (popularly known as the Hays Code) in 1934.
Kuwaiti ministry of information's committee on cinematic censorship censored the film because of its "ideas and beliefs that are alien to the Kuwaiti society". [280] Also banned due to "promoting ideas and beliefs that are not in line with the cultures and values". [281] [282] 2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
This one belonged to Thru Traffic (1935) and was shown as the last frame of the film. The Pennsylvania State Board of Censors was an organization under the Pennsylvania Department of Education responsible for approving, redacting , or banning motion pictures that it considered "sacrilegious, obscene, indecent, or immoral" or might pervert morals .
More than a thousand book titles, most addressing racism and LGBTQ issues, have been banned from U.S. classrooms and school libraries in the last nine months, many under pressure from conservative ...
Film censorship in the United States – Motion Picture Industry; Introduction of Vitaphone Sound Pictures – 1926 film with Will H. Hays; List of people on the cover of Time Magazine: 1920s – September 13, 1926; Nazism and cinema – Nazi influence on film between 1933–1945