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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.
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.
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 ...
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 .
Film censorship is the censorship of motion pictures, either through the excising of certain frames or scenes, or outright banning of films in their entirety. Film censorship typically occurs as a result of political or moral objections to a film's content; controversial content subject to censorship include the depiction of graphic violence ...
In the 1920s, just as the early twilight of the British Empire was approaching, a slightly familiar battle was fought, in a slightly unusual terrain, Cinema. The American film industry had by the twenties already started to dominate the global film market, with American films eclipsing English films in most parts of the British Empire. In ...
The first act of movie censorship in the United States was an 1897 statute of the State of Maine that prohibited the exhibition of prizefight films. [51] Maine enacted the statute to prevent the exhibition of the 1897 heavyweight championship between James J. Corbett and Robert Fitzsimmons other states followed Maine.
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