Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diversion, including, specifically, miniature golf, is forbidden by law on Sunday in Massachusetts. This same law also once closed the doors of movie theaters, unless their owners could get a city license to show a picture. But the cities of Massachusetts could not grant such a license without a censor's written approval that the film was in keeping with the character of the day. Even the State government got into the act; the Commissioner of Public Safety had to see the picture, too. All this censorship machinery, however, came to a sudden halt last summer. On July...
...great weaknesses of the law which established the censorship machinery was the vague terms which it gave as a criterion for the censor to follow. All law had to say on this subject was that entertainment to be licensed must be "in keeping with the character of the day and not inconsistent with its due observance." In the famous "Miracle" case, the United States Supreme Court condemned a New York movie censorship law which forbade the showing of "sacrilegious films, as too vague to be enforced. Brewer argued that the same judgment applied equally well to the Massachusetts...
...started. "Censorship is dead," one Boston editorial announced. Associated Press stories proclaiming the victory over prudery ran in papers all over the country. But not all the reaction to the court decision was so noisy. The Commissioner of Public Safety, who never seemed too happy about acting as a censor anyway, quietly dismantled his screening room and went back to his main business of inspecting buildings. And without much fanfare, the Brattle Theatre finally showed Miss Julie...
...Sneaking Censor...
...Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor also acted as censor when his department banned the French film Game of Love (TIME, Jan. 24). O'Connor testified that the movie must be immoral and obscene because it "aroused sexual feelings in me." Said he: "Feelings should come naturally. There are no stimulants necessary for nature. Nature takes care of itself...