Word: precensorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special category because of their graphic nature and "capacity for evil." Thus in 1961, the court narrowly upheld the power of Chicago's police commissioner to precensor all movies and check them for obscenity. That decision, however, failed to answer crucial questions: Are even nonobscene movies subject to precensorship? How long can censors delay decisions and thus make exhibitors knuckle under...
...obscene movie: Revenge at Daybreak, a French film about the Irish Rebellion that the board admittedly would have licensed had Freedman submitted it. Freedman was fined $25, and Maryland's highest court upheld the conviction. When Freedman appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Maryland argued that precensorship of movies is necessary to prevent commercial exploitation of obscenity...
Last week the court reaffirmed the constitutionality of movie precensorship. But it unanimously reversed Freedman's conviction and voided the Maryland law on the ground that it lacked procedural safeguards and judicial participation. The trouble with Maryland's setup was that it provided no time limit or court appeal while the censors made up their minds. Nor did the law provide any rapid relief in the courts even after the board...
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