The Movie Rating System with Karina Longworth
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What Happened to the Rating System?
The rating system that was put into place in 1968, that's sort of an embryonic version of what we have now. There was no kind of formal film censorship until the mid-19-teens. The state of Ohio tried to set up basically the first effective state-run censorship of movies board and they got sued by a studio called Mutual Film Corporation. This essentially declared that movies were commerce and not art so the First Amendment did apply to them.
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