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A i ra AMERICAN CHIL LIBERTIES eIIOt!, 170 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORX 10, HY. ERNEST ANGELL EDWARO J. ENTS PATRICK MURPHY MALIN OSMOND K. FRAENKEL Executive Director BARENT TEN EYCK - General Cou ORegon £-5990 we Alan Reitman, Assitfoat Director cay WEEKLY RULLZTIN #180 pEoum sl Pah, Meta CASORSHIP PRESSURE Cl MOVIES CFPERAY BY ACLU PLAN TO R3VI’ A plan to relieve censorship pressure exerted on the metion picture Sndust self-appodited » ‘ing groups was proposed last week by tha American Civil Liberties Unisn end dts anti-conscrship affiliate, the Naticnal Council cn Freedem frem Censorship. + 1 The proposal, submitted to the Motion Picture Association of America, cals. for the MPAA to collect informsticn that will holp it to decide 4f objecticns to cartain filn subjects “ave based on sclid evidence and represent the opinion of the motion Picture audience rather than the epinion ef one particular group." This could bs detormined, the civi. "tics grovps said, if cpiniens were solicited frem: (1) ¢ cross-ceetion of movie | ccers, (2) exrorts on the film subject ta be coversd, and Psychologists and sccial scientists, "who have some knowledgo of human behavior and what stinulates it,” The plen was presented to TERA rresident Zric Johnston in a letter from ACLU executive director Fatriek iurphy Malin and Elmer Rice, noted playwright and . chairman of the Hational Council on Freedom fron Censorship. “ While reaffirming its tctal cppesition to the FAA's ow ccda as a restraint ca freedom of oxpri their views on "certain is to ba retained in gen 2 eorreciad oven Af the osde "ea believe that one of the mast serinus restrictions on freedem of onrres is the code's prchibitions against ary treatment of certain topic use of certain Arcorporated into the cose in ihe rast becau: self-appos reviewing groups. Sy their ccntinuing pressure trese eroups, in effet, havo required the industry to accept their standard of socially-accep _ 7m subjects and treatzent. ~ , ,Msodless to say, these groups have a constitutional right to e erinions, and the Unien doferds this right, but hen the ex expression end dop: other nemcers of the ecxmunity to s matter treated in Silms, then it is proper to offer objection. cortain subject "seein framing the code to meet the demands of these groups, the MFA has not try given up an inpertant measure of fzeedem, but 1t has done so without dater: 1f tho public aarecs with their opinion and whether tho evils invefghod agains these groups could reasonably be expacted to follow, Woe sutmit that if the adopted a firmer basis to appraise ikelihood of these evils it would provably fitnd it unnecessary to include the taboos it nev docs in its ooeo. Ly viewing > "Baby Dol. ie" Llant Seth cr carnal taged 1 oF pehasis on lest in but the way ti inmoral, only “te: By A REGULAS WEEKLY SCRVICE, FURTHER INFORMATION FURKISHED OW REQUEST. Re neny 0-080 — Untceted