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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.
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.
The system consisted of a series of "Thirteen Points", a list of subjects and storylines they promised to avoid. [1] However, there was no method of enforcement if a studio film violated the Thirteen Points content restrictions. [4] The NAMPI tried to prevent New York from becoming the first state with its own film censorship board in 1921, but ...
Maryland, 380 U.S. 51 (1965), which held that it could not outright ban a film's release through the refusal of a license, and had to secure a court order if it wanted to prevent a work from being shown. That case helped to end governmental movie censorship in the states that still had movie censorship boards--New York, Virginia, and Kansas.
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 .
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Pages in category "Film censorship in the United States" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The free speech zone organized by the local government in Boston, [129] during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Free speech zones (also known as First Amendment Zones, Free speech cages, and Protest zones) are areas set aside in public places for citizens of the United States engaged in political activism to exercise their right of free ...