Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...development of American cinema as responsible social criticism has been hampered by an outdated Movie Production Code which has recently been radically liberalized. This code is a voluntary intraindustry set-up designed to assuage self-appointed guardians of the national moral fiber and to squelch agitation for federal censorship. It is not aimed primarily at pornography or obscenity, but at insuring that the films will not conflict with moral principles of one sort or another. Crime doesn't pay, true love always wins out, infidelity and adultery must be punished, national honor, the fair name of American womanhood...
Even more objectionable than censorship on moral grounds are the various attempts to ban or obstruct films on the basis of the political beliefs or activities of the artists involved. Chief among these transgressions is the American Legion's picketing of Charlie Chaplin's films, or even of Born Yesterday because Judy Holliday once signed a front organization's petition...
...Place for Censorship. Last week Polish newsmen were busily planning a campaign to cut the last strings of censorship and win constitutional guarantees of independence for the press. One of the leaders of the campaign is Eligiusz Lasota, fiery young (29) editor of the weekly Po Prostu, who was resoundingly elected to Parliament last month. His first task in office will be to fight for press freedom. "There is no place for censorship in a democracy," says Lasota. "Without democracy, there is no socialism...
...last month the press had become so free that Gomulka, in alarm before the elections, tightened censorship. "The time has come," he warned Warsaw editors, "to find some good things to say. We'll self-criticize ourselves into self-liquidation." Despite Gomulka's election victory, newsmen do not expect him to lift press curbs for some time to come, since, as he explains, Poland must move carefully if the nation is not to imperil its hard-won gains. But Polish journalists, having tasted freedom, are still getting stones past the censor that would never see print...
...three men agreed, however, that the trend toward centralization of press, radio, television, and motion pictures in the hands of a few men was a form of censorship which could only lead to total-itarianism...