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I find it almost amusing that censorship of movies is nearly as old as movies themselves. Something about new forms of mass media seems to scare people. It isn't even just some guy giving a mild warning against a particular film or two, but groups of individuals devoting their time to "protecting the innocent public" from such vile corruption, and it has been going on for as long as movies have been around. I wonder what it is that makes films so powerful that they can frighten people so easily. - Cilla | I find it almost amusing that censorship of movies is nearly as old as movies themselves. Something about new forms of mass media seems to scare people. It isn't even just some guy giving a mild warning against a particular film or two, but groups of individuals devoting their time to "protecting the innocent public" from such vile corruption, and it has been going on for as long as movies have been around. I wonder what it is that makes films so powerful that they can frighten people so easily. - Cilla | ||
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| + | I really enjoyed reading this section about the evolution of Hollywood and motion pictures. It's interesting to read about society's reactions to them during the different decades of the twentieth century when they first appeared. The movie industry was always affected by some event that was happening in the world or the United States including the depression, World War II, communism, and Vietnam war. At the time of World War II, President Roosevelt wanted the movies to try to help win the war and to ban the codes that were being put on the movies to explain and describe the war and all that was involved with it. So even if some think historical films do not always depict events in the most realistic or accurate ways, they always have a role to play in American Society -Amy V. | ||
