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OF SL NE UT alle ee RONEN iS BS RET NI TONNE TG ct? Ace nal Matas ~ als eee any ae Ant lienanene 5 oe ROO Re me a eRe teitehinipten alien sain aR niet me angen acy th altlns Rate ns aa) i . . - ry 2 . te, Be Sem re nae SE en a ate wad vealed a ce ce tein Semmtemaltensthes cas nabbalh dose lemeenthea? Wehiateeasun \ 4 . 2 ; . ~_ ia p gees . nt r r Cc cose r t Pad A \ AMERICAN CHAL LIBERTIES UF 00, 170 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YOR 10, LY. » ERNEST ANGELL EQWARD J. ENNIS PATRICK MURPHY MALIN Cheirman OSMOND K. FRAENKEL Executive Director Board of Directors BARENT TEN EYCK - General Countol , ORegon 5.5990 a Alan Reitman, Assisfant Diroetor WEEKLY RULLSTIN #1840 NP PERSP RE, Mi teS PLAN TO REVIZY CENSCRSHIP PRESSURE CN MCVIES OFFERED BY ACLU |, . a OOF ve A plan to relieve censorship pressure exerted on the metion ric ture Sndus try self-appointed reviewing grours was vroresed last week by the American Civil Iiberties Unisn end its anti-consorship affiliate, the Naticnal Council cD Freedem frem Censorship. c fe? The proposal, submitted to the Motion Picture Association of America, calls. for the MPAA to collect informaticn that will holp it to decide if objecticns to cartain | film subjects "are based on selid evidence and represent the opinion of the motion Picture audience rather than the epinion ef one farticuler group." This could bs determined, the civil liberties groups said, if cpinicns were solicited from: (1) cross-cection of movie peers, (2) excerts on the film subject to be covered, and Psychologists and secial scientists, "who have soma knowledge of human vehavior and what stimulates it." . The plin was presented to MPAA resident sric Johnston in a letier from ACLU executive director Fatrick iiurphy Malin and Wlmer Rice, noted playwright and . chairman of the National Council on Freedom from Censorship. “ While reaffirming its tctal eppcsition to the MFAA's own ccda as a restraint oa freedem of cxprassicn civil litsrt stn tf. Sede ttele vici-deltet chet ied eee oe CAPTOSSLON vas Gas S Organisations cale they wers prossniing their views on "cartain glerin hat...should be cerresied oven if the esde is to ba retained in generale "We believe that one of the most serinus restrictions on Creeicm of a3 vy-ras is the code's porchibitions gainst any treatment of cartain topics ineludin use of certain words....It is generally understood that these prohibisicns vars incorporated into the code in the rast because of tha strone objecticns of certain self-appointed reviewing groups. By their ccntinuing pressure trese prouts, in .@ffeot, have raquired the indus iry to accept their stand ard of socially-accepzadla film subse ts and treatment. . ‘"sedless to say, these groups have a constitutional right to express their ‘epindors, and tha inion defers this rt ght, but when the expression hamrers free Gzpressicn and deprives other aemcters.of the cexmumity to see cortain sub ject matter treated in Ziims, then it is vrorer to offer objection. ",.sin framing the code to meet the demands of these groups, the HFAA has not arly given up an impertént measure of freadem, but it has done so without da termining +f the public agrees with their opinion and whother tho evils invei ghed against by these groups could reasonably be expected to follow, Wa submit that if the MPAA adopted a firmer tasis tn appraise the likelihood of these evils it would probably itd it unnecessary to include the taboos it new does in its code," In another movies censorship development the Catholic film-reviewing agency, gave a "C" or "Conde a ; flin, "Baby Doliel Tra pretr rec ‘ 9 Stitament, % 3 i VN and trsain © Haid wy Ve . bestiveness nlogua and costimding, ita vst an Af A ois She varisus erwLty ars oe caddie ard corruption s.tt teen wounsy cilen- L eo Sive to Christ sreditionail st Sonera Reo : > ae LO Mia ae Tho film, set in the South, dasls with aycung veman married to anan te ‘ic> Lar a3e who beeemes involvad with a yousrer men. In comm on the lnyientenac taong aor an Said: “I mado Mtaby Doll! as I saw it. — did the best T could te ene on riin what I felt in the South. wot the way things should be, OGRELES: will scaoday bo but the way thay appenyed to me there and thea. I ué te moral or emoraly only testhfeu." AREGULAT WEEALY fekvice. FURTHER INFORUATION FURKISHED ON REQUEST.