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Box 55

 Container

Contains 30 Results:

Censorship: Films

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

"Confidential Communication" through mail of obscene films.

Dates: 1916-1989

Censorship: Films

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 12

Censorship: Films and Local Obscenity Ordinances

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Letter to Konvitz from James Bouras, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., about state censor boards.

Dates: 1916-1989

Censorship: Films

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Newspapers decline to advertise "Adult Films."

Dates: 1916-1989

Censorship: Films

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Obscenity cases and the "3-Point Test."

Dates: 1916-1989

Censorship: Film Rating System (Voluntary).

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of Professor Knoviltz's voluminous reference files arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder in rough chronological order. The files consist largely of newspaper and periodical clippings, newsletters, and legal documents (which are not described individually). Correspndence which Professor Konvitz chsse to file under subject rather than by the name of the author, as well as minutes, speeches, draft manuscripts, transcrits, pre-1940 pamphlets, and other...
Dates: 1916-1989

Censorship: Films

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 17

Censorship: Foreign Countries, 1960

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Two 1960 letters to Konvitz from Secretary of the Publishers Association in London, relating to the Obscene Publications Act in England.

Dates: 1960

Censorship: Foreign

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Report, "Conference to Investigate the Working of the Obscene Publications Acts, 1959 and 1964" by the Arts Council of Great Britain.

Dates: 1916-1989

Censorship: General.

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of Professor Knoviltz's voluminous reference files arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder in rough chronological order. The files consist largely of newspaper and periodical clippings, newsletters, and legal documents (which are not described individually). Correspndence which Professor Konvitz chsse to file under subject rather than by the name of the author, as well as minutes, speeches, draft manuscripts, transcrits, pre-1940 pamphlets, and other...
Dates: 1916-1989