FILM2202 Study Guide - Mutual Film
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Final exam questions: this situation is a classic conflict in free speech rights because it mimics the 1915. In 1915, ohio protested that d. w. griffith"s birth of a. Nation portrayed inaccurate depictions of race, misconstrued the struggle between blacks versus whites and northerners versus southerners, and heightened the controversy of the kkk. Because of these factors, the industrial board of ohio ordered that birth of a nation either be re-edited or cut altogether. The decision signified that films were not a form of speech protected by the first. In this situation, the group of religious students who challenge my documentary would be acting as ohio, while i the director would be paralleling griffith. Father leahy would be representing the mutual film board review. Leahy of the burstyn vs. wilson trial of 1952, which overturned the mutual vs. ohio decision that films were not protected by freedom of speech.