In re Franklin Film Manufacturing Corp.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 66, Jan. T., 1916, by the State Board of Censors, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Philadelphia Co., Sept. T., 1915, No. 4524, reversing decision of the State Board of Censors In The Matter of the Franklin Film Manufacturing Corporation. Appeal from order of the State Board of Censors. Before Barratt, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 66, Jan. T., 1916, by the State Board of Censors, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Philadelphia Co., Sept. T., 1915, No. 4524, reversing decision of the State Board of Censors In The Matter of the Franklin Film Manufacturing Corporation. Appeal from order of the State Board of Censors. Before Barratt, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The lower court reversed the decision of the State Board of Censors directing the elimination of certain portions of a motion picture film. The State Board of Censors appealed. Error assigned, among others, was the decree of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
This ease comes to us on certiorari from the Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, acting on an appeal from a decision of the Pennsylvania State Board of Censors. The board directed the elimination of certain portions of a film entitled “Virtue”; the court below reversed the censors, and they have appealed.
The Act of May 15, 1915, P. L. 534, (Sec. 3), creates a board to consist of three citizens, “well qualified by education and experience,” to perform the duties of motion picture censors; it directs that, before assuming office, they shall take the oath…
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