Download or read book A Study of Selected Proposals to Establish a Federal Motion Picture Censorship Commission in the United States from 1914 to 1934 written by William Hathaway Boatwright and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Motion Picture Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Motion Picture Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Motion Picture Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Federal Motion Picture Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Federal Motion Picture Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Federal Motion Picture Commission Hearings on H R 4094 and H R 6233 Apr 14 May 4 1926 written by United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Motion Picture Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Investigation of the Motion picture Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Senate Resolution 142 and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Film Censorship in America written by Jeremy Geltzer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first films played in nickelodeons, controversial movies have been cut or banned across the United States. Far from Hollywood, regional productions such as Oscar Micheaux's provocative race films and Nell Shipman's wildlife adventures were censored by men like Major M.L.C. Funkhouser, the terror of Chicago's cinemas, and Myrtelle Snell, the Alabama administrator who made the slogan "Banned in Birmingham" famous. Censorship continues today, with Utah's case against Deadpool (2016) pending in federal court and Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills (2013) versus the Texas Film Commission. This authoritative state-by-state account covers the history of film censorship and the battle for free speech in America.
Download or read book Monitoring the Movies written by Jennifer Fronc and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As movies took the country by storm in the early twentieth century, Americans argued fiercely about whether municipal or state authorities should step in to control what people could watch when they went to movie theaters, which seemed to be springing up on every corner. Many who opposed the governmental regulation of film conceded that some entity—boards populated by trusted civic leaders, for example—needed to safeguard the public good. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (NB), a civic group founded in New York City in 1909, emerged as a national cultural chaperon well suited to protect this emerging form of expression from state incursions. Using the National Board's extensive files, Monitoring the Movies offers the first full-length study of the NB and its campaign against motion-picture censorship. Jennifer Fronc traces the NB's Progressive-era founding in New York; its evolving set of "standards" for directors, producers, municipal officers, and citizens; its "city plan," which called on citizens to report screenings of condemned movies to local officials; and the spread of the NB's influence into the urban South. Ultimately, Monitoring the Movies shows how Americans grappled with the issues that arose alongside the powerful new medium of film: the extent of the right to produce and consume images and the proper scope of government control over what citizens can see and show.
Download or read book Motion picture Films written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American public wants its movies passionate but pure The Question of Morality in American Film Censorship of the 1920s written by Amelie Meyer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject History - America, grade: 1,0, University of Göttingen (Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte), course: The "Roaring Twenties": Die Massenkultur der 1920er Jahre in transatlantischer Perspektive, language: English, abstract: For as long as there have been moving pictures, there have also been attempts to regulate their content. The first court case surrounding moving pictures has been recorded as early as 1897 and many more were to follow. While film was thus always subjected to scrutiny from various groups, the 1920s saw a more fervent battle for control over censorship which resulted in the formation of the 1930 Production Code remaining in effect until 1968. Lee Grieveson’s study Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America comprehensively describes long-lasting battles over movie content regulation and the discussion of the function of cinema. Yet, he is among many scholars who sees the 1915 Supreme Court decision in the case “Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio” as the culmination of these struggles as it proved “the validity of state censorship.” Justice McKenna is quoted ruling that “the exhibition of moving picture is a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit, like other spectacles, not to be regarded ... as part of the press of the country, or as organs of the public opinion.” This ruling was not only significant for the increased state and city censorship which followed, but it also fueled censorship demands by various parties including religious groups, social reformers, politicians, and journalists who all called for the elusive concept of morality. The road from this first ruling which titled the film industry as a business to be regulated towards a formal censorship with the aim of restoring morality manifested in the so-called Production Code in 1934 will be the focus of this paper. The first part will consist of an analysis of the various parties involved in the attempt to regulate movie content in order to expose the individual motives behind their requests as well as their practices to reach their goal of censorship. The following part will then deal with the question of how well the reformers were able to realize their goal of censoring the movies during the first years of the 1920s. The questions posed above will mainly be studied on the basis of guiding works written by Gregory D. Black, Francis G. Couvares, Stephen Vaughn, Lee Grieveson and Leonard J. Leff. Analyzed sources will include newspaper articles, state review board standards, studies on audience behavior, and an original text written by a direct participant of the 1920 censorship struggle, MPPDA president William Hays.
Download or read book Report of the National Board of Censorship of Motion Pictures written by National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Motion Picture Commission written by United States Congress House Commi and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report on the establishment and mission of the Federal Motion Picture Commission, which was created to regulate and promote the burgeoning film industry in the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The National Board of Censorship Review of Motion Pictures 1909 1922 written by Charles Matthew Feldman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Investigation of the Motion Picture Industry written by U. S. Committee on the Judiciary and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proposed Investigation of the Motion-Picture Industry: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 142, Directing an Investigation of the Alleged Political Activities of the Motion-Picture Industry Now I come to the fourth investigation which has been held, and an account of that is given oii page 21 of this pamphlet. This was an investigation by the Chicago Motion Picture Commission, appointed in 1915 by the judiciary com mittee of the city council, which after a very complete investigation of two years made its report in September, 1920, in a volume of 184 pages. In that report it recommended for Chicago an ordinance of censorship. Before that commission appeared members of the trade from all over the country, and I recall particularly the speech which was made there by Mr. Wil liam A. Brady, who was president of the National Motion Picture Industry. These investigations have not been thorough enough, I feel, to meet all the needs. There is a very great feeling of need of more efficient regulation of the morality of the motion picture. It has been brought out that 87 per cent of our im pressions come through the eye, 7 or 8 per cent through the ear. 2 per cent by the touch and 1 per cent by the smell. I think it is - but 87 per cent of our education comes through the eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
