Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mentioned the word that TV fears more than any other. Baltimore's Catholic Review, accusing NBC's adapters of "outdoing Mr. Poe himself" in televising The Fall of the House of Usher, warned: "When one considers that young children view television, it amounts to something that needs censorship...
Seventeen songs and a frolicking chorus line pave the way for the eventual triumph of dramatic freedom over censorship in the lusty musical conceived by William S. Wheeling '50 and Russel A. Ames...
...Supreme Court. He had pledges of cooperation from the Motion Picture Association of America and the American Civil Liberties Union. It was true that in 1915 the U.S. Supreme Court had found the fledgling movies a vehicle of entertainment rather than, opinion, and had upheld state censorship laws as no violation of freedom. But only last year, in another opinion, the Supreme Court observed that the movies were clearly entitled to the Constitution's protection of free press...
...careless youth of the cinema, long before the first feature-length film, the U.S. screen was as free as the U.S. press. Then, in 1907, Chicago gave birth to movie censorship. Last week, after decades of kowtowing by a timid film industry, enemies of censorship made a strong bid to end the reign of censors now entrenched in seven states and 50 cities...
...Classics, Inc., the picture's distributor. They asked for 1) an injunction against last summer's ban on the film by Atlanta censors (who found that it would "adversely affect the peace, morals and good order" of the city); and 2) a ruling that Atlanta's censorship laws violate the U.S. Constitution...