Re: RARA-AVIS: Movie Industry Wimps?
joseph (joseph@sos.net)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:23:22 +0100
>But would any law passed about the content of films have
stood up if the
>film industry had pressed its first ammendment rights?
My point was
>that we will never know because the film industry, just
as the comic
>industry later did, folded without a fight. Those few
fights that did
>occur were found in favor of freedom of speech except in
the case of
>obscenity, which even I Am Curious, Yellow got
around.
>
>Mark
In the early 1900's the Supreme Court ruled that the movies
were
entertainment only and had less First Amendment protection.
Therefore the
state boards had the "right" to censor films as well as federal
government.
It wasn't until the mid-fifties that movies started regaining
the lost
first amendment rights.
Joseph M
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