State ex rel. Keating v. Motion Picture Film Entitled "Vixen"

Although the production, exhibition and distribution of motion pictures is a large-scale business conducted for private profit, the fact that motion pictures are a medium for the expression of ideas accords them the safeguard of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Kingsley International Pictures Corp. v. Regents of University of the State of New York (1959), 360 U. S. 684, 3 L. Ed. 2d 1512, 79 S. Ct. 1362. The United States Constitution, however, does not ordain absolute freedom for anyone to exhibit any motion picture of any kind at any time or place. Dennis v. United States (1951), 341 U.…