Freedom of the Screen by Laura Wittern-Keller;

Author:Laura Wittern-Keller;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2008-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The Tide Turns against

the Censors, 1953–1957

As La ronde worked its way toward the Supreme Court, the legality of film censorship was beginning to look grim in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. New York’s judges, who for three decades had staunchly supported their censors, were starting to question the statute and its application. In the early 1950s, as the judicial attitude toward free speech was shifting at the federal level, New York’s appellate division justices became more skeptical about the prior restraint exercised by their motion picture division. In 1953 the board of regents and their counsel, Charles Brind, began a losing streak that never turned around. As the censors tried to hold on to their role as protectors of the state’s movie theater screens, the courts of their state and the nation were moving toward a more expansive interpretation of First Amendment rights of speech and press.

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