Censorship: A Question of Judgment? (1963)
1963 · Ephemeral film · 4 min
Synopsis
Should the sponsor of a high-school newspaper have the power to determine whether a picture of a student fight should be printed?
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- Running time
- 4 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- Censorsh1963
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Social guidance
- Censorship
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · A Question of Judgment · 23_skidoo · 2007-07-23
From Horizon Productions of Kansas City comes this very short educational film on censorship. Two boys are fighting out front after school. This scene goes on way too long, but an interesting thing about it are the handheld camera shots from the two fighters' point of view. Nancy Martin, a reporter for the school paper, sees the ugly scene from a window, and rushes down with a camera to get some pictures she hopes to print in the paper the next day. However, the paper's faculty advisor, Mr. Bishop, is not going to let the photos be printed. He argues that it is the school paper's business to…
★★★ · Denial of reality · Steve Nordby · 2004-01-25
Is there a difference of opinion? What is censorship? Teen boys fight after school and a girl on the student newspaper gets a picture. Faculty advisor refuses to put it in the paper: "Parents will see it," "not what the people want," "will hurt the reputation of the school," "very poor taste," "what good will it do if all our newspapers do is print stories of fights and robberies and murders." The usual arguements that add up to: don't print the news if you don't *like* the news.
