New documentary relives the history of film censorship by the Maryland State Board of Censors.
Ever since movies first arrived in the United States in 1896, the year that Thomas Edison’s film The Kiss was released and assailed as a threat to morality, motion pictures have met protests and attempts at censorship. In 1916, the Maryland State Board of Censors was formed, becoming one of the longest-lasting state boards until being shuttered in 1981. The board’s censorship efforts and infringement of the First Amendment lie at the heart of Sickies Making Films, a documentary by Robert Emmons GSC’02, an assistant teaching professor of filmmaking and associate director of the Digital Studies Center at Rutgers University–Camden. To view the documentary, visit sickiesmakingfilms.com.
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