Proposed Federal Motion Picture Commission: Hearings Before the Committee on Education. House of Representatives, Sixty Ninth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 1091 and H. R. 6233, Bills to Create a Commission to be Known as the Federal Motion Picture Commission, and Defining Its Powers and Duties. April 14, 15, 16, 17, 27, and May 4, 1926 ... |
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... Hays , with keen discernment , lofty ideals , and masterful ability , would strike the shackles that bound the motion- picture business to so much that was unclean . I think Will Hays really meant to do it , but he has been like the ...
... Hays , with keen discernment , lofty ideals , and masterful ability , would strike the shackles that bound the motion- picture business to so much that was unclean . I think Will Hays really meant to do it , but he has been like the ...
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... Hays tells us that we " simply have no idea how many bad pictures he has kept off the screen , " we reply that we do know how many bad ones he has allowed to go on the screen . In proposing a commission to license only such pictures as ...
... Hays tells us that we " simply have no idea how many bad pictures he has kept off the screen , " we reply that we do know how many bad ones he has allowed to go on the screen . In proposing a commission to license only such pictures as ...
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... Hays's plan of reforming the movies from within - although I have come to believe that his real job is to defeat all attempts at regulation of the movies - when I think of the morals of the leading actors and actresses in the film , for ...
... Hays's plan of reforming the movies from within - although I have come to believe that his real job is to defeat all attempts at regulation of the movies - when I think of the morals of the leading actors and actresses in the film , for ...
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... Hays organization . I can tell . you that during the past year we have had four films changed absolutely , or four scenes in them changed . We have had their fullest cooperation and they have been 100 per cent fair with us , showing no ...
... Hays organization . I can tell . you that during the past year we have had four films changed absolutely , or four scenes in them changed . We have had their fullest cooperation and they have been 100 per cent fair with us , showing no ...
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... . Now , I want to tell you what the Hays organization has done in the way of giving counsel and help to those 26 State organizations whenever needed . I am referring to the better pictures 38 PROPOSED FEDERAL MOTION PICTURE COMMISSION.
... . Now , I want to tell you what the Hays organization has done in the way of giving counsel and help to those 26 State organizations whenever needed . I am referring to the better pictures 38 PROPOSED FEDERAL MOTION PICTURE COMMISSION.
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Page 6 - No vacancy in the Commission shall impair the right of the remaining Commissioners to exercise all the powers of the Commission.
Page 19 - If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 16 - An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes...
Page 14 - If upon such hearing the Commission shall be of the opinion that the method of competition or the act or practice in question is prohibited by this Act, it shall make a report in writing in which it shall state its findings as to the facts and shall issue and cause to be served on such person, partnership, or corporation an order requiring such person, partnership, or corporation to cease and desist from using such method of competition or such act or practice.
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Page 4 - That the Commission shall, on or before the first day of December in each year, make a report, which shall be transmitted to Congress, and copies of which shall be distributed as are the other reports transmitted to Congress This report shall contain such information and data collected by the Commission...
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Page 13 - States the sum of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure which forfeiture shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States, and shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the United States...