Feb
15
2020
"Hypocrites"- Censor Boards and when Nudity is Acceptable
While doing research on the Grand theater in Bandon, Oregon, I came across an advertisement for a film titled Hypocrites.
Censorship & Regulation
Efforts to regulate or censor movies, including legal issues more generally.
Feb
07
2020
Portland Motion Picture Censorship – For the Good of the People?
As early as 1897, local film censorship boards regulated film exhibition with standards that varied city to city, and because of a lack of enforcement power, even theater to theater. In 1911, Portland debuted a censorship board of its own. The chairman of the board, at least in 1916, was a man by the name of F. T. Richards.