Foy Productions, Ltd. v. Graves
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtMcNamee, J.
Various applications were made by the petitioners to the State Education Department for a license to display a motion picture, and its speaking parts, entitled " Tomorrow’s Children.” The picture was reviewed and rejected successively between May 5, 1934, and August 20, 1937, by the reviewers of the picture division of the Department of Education, by the director of the division, and again by the reviewers upon a revision of the picture, and finally by the Commissioner of Education of the State. The grounds of rejection and of refusal were that the picture was “ immoral,” “ will tend to…
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