Cinema in the 21st Century

In the case of mutual film corporation versus industrial commission of ohio, the court ruled that motion pictures were a commercial product and not an art form. Justice joseph mc kenna declared that because films may be used for evil, the government had the right to step in like they would attempt to control disease in the food supply. This statement contained a kernel of the philosophy that would guide most of the arguments over the next 30 years or so about why it was good business for producers to regulate content of movies. Instead of marketing to many different niche interests, economic classes and level of education, the studios and their self appointed censors would aim to reach a single mass audience all at once by