Trans-Lux Distributing Corp. v. Board of Regents of University of New York

This appeal puts in issue once again the constitutionality of an application of this State’s motion picture licensing statute (Education Law, § 122). The Appellate Division has annulled a determination of the Board of Regents which directed the elimination of two scenes from the film ‘‘ A Stranger Knocks ” as a condition for granting a license for the exhibition of the film. The grounds for the board’s action rested on the alleged obscenity of two sequences in the picture. The first scene presents a man and a woman on a beach embracing and caressing one another, and ends in a view of the head…