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Into Atlanta's federal district court trooped legal representatives of Independent Producer Louis de Rochemont, who helped launch the "Negro-problem" movie cycle with his Lost Boundaries (TIME, July 4), and Film 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...
Some Atlantans wondered why their censors had let themselves (and censors everywhere) in for a legal wrangle. Lost Boundaries, the true story of a Negro family that passed for white, had played successfully in such cities as Jacksonville and Birmingham. And the day before the De Rochemont suit was filed, Pinky, another Negro-problem film, opened to packed houses and a good press in Atlanta itself, with no noticeable effect on the city's peace, morals or good order...
Pinky. The best of the Negro-problem films, with Jeanne Grain (TIME...
Pinky. The best of the Negro-problem films; with Jeanne Grain, Ethel Waters and Ethel Barrymore (TIME...
Pinky. The best of the new cycle of Negro-problem films, with Jeanne Grain (TIME...