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...feel, however, that The Harvard Crimson did not exercise a reasonable amount of prudence in publishing the article. I am not an advocate of censorship, but to have the article stand alone with poorly articulated feelings is a recipe for misunderstanding. I feel that The Crimson owed itself and Fong more time to ensure that a balance of viewpoints were expressed in a more positive manner...
...supporter of censorship. However, The Crimson is not the government. It does not exist to publish just any student's uninformed and unconstructive opinions at their whim...
...some reason, the advent of the talkies in 1929 threatened the guardians of American morality more than anything that had gone before, and pressure on the studios began to build until Code compliance became standard in 1934. The self-censorship mechanism was in place, and it dominated major U.S. releases without exception until 1953, when Otto Preminger used the word "virgin" in "The Moon Is Blue" and got away with it. Even David O. Selznick had to beg Hayes Office approval for the final "I don't give a damn" in "Gone With the Wind." The Code insured that...
...premiere in '33 made it a "pre-Code" film. The Hollywood Production Code, administered by the Hayes Office, was a self-imposed set of rules devised by the studios after the 1915 Supreme Court declaration that movies were "capable of evil, having power for it." The ruling made prior censorship by local government boards legal; expensive prints could - and would - be seized by local sheriffs and police departments...
...detailed history of the Hayes office and Hollywood censorship...