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The End of American Film Censorship

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By Kristin Hunt Verified, Orrin Cocks, Gregory Black, Geoffrey Shurlock
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When the Oscars began in 1929, the Supreme Court didn’t even consider movies art. Fourteen years earlier, in 1915, the Court ruled that film was not entitled to legal protection as free speech. The state of Ohio had passed an ordinance authorizing a censorship board that could approve or reject any film seeking to be shown in the state. Mutual Film Corporation, a movie distributor, sued, claiming that the Ohio law violated the First Amendment.
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