Motion Pictures and Juvenile Delinquency. Interim Report
[COMMITTEE PRINT] 1*i iii [ i _ I IRMILIIII|RI I 84TH CONGRESS SENATE REo- ld Session I fENAT MOTION PICTURES AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY INTERIM REPORT A OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY PURSUANT TO S. Res. 62 as extended 84tk Congress RELATIVE TO THE INVESTIGATION OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY IN THE UNITED STATES Printed for tLe use of the Committee on the Judiciary UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1956 &4, i 70 COMMITTEE ON TIlE JUDICIARY JAMES 0. EASiTLANIP, Misalssippl, ('atrmon Et;TES4 KEFAUVER, Tennessee ALEXANDER WILEY, Wisconsin OLIN I). JOHNSTON, South Carolina WILLIAM LONGER, North Dakota THOMAS C. HENNINGS, Ja., Missouri WILLIAM E. JENNER, Indiana JOIN L. McCLELLAN, Arkansas ARTHUR V. WATKINS, Utah PRICE DANIEL, Texas EVERETT McKINLEY DIRKSEN, Illinois JOSEPH C. O'MAIONEY, Wyoming HERMAN WELKER, Idaho MATTHEW M. NEELY, West Virginia JOHN MARSHALL BUTLER, Maryland MiOmmmn-r To INVESTIGATE JUVENILE DINQ1TENCY IN THE UNITED STATES ESTES KEFAUVER, Tennessee, Chairmwan THOMAS C. HENNINGS, Ja., Missouri WILLIAM LANGER, North Dakota PRICE DANIEL,. Texas ALEXANDER WILEY, Wisconsin JAMcs H. Boso, GOferal Counsel 11 CONTENTS P... I. Introduction , Motion pictures are a trt of the media of mass communticaton investigation ------------------------------------------ I Letters express concern over excessive violence in motion picturest... .. .... ... .. .. 2 Concern exprnwA-d over objectionable motion-picture adver- tiiing ....................................... ............ 3 11. Has there beeoj an, increase in violezie and brutality in motion pictures_. ..------------------------------ 4 Motion-picture industry admits overemphasis on excessive violence . ------------------------------ 4 Foreign countries officially object to violence in American flm---------------...---------------------------- r.xanples of alleged film violations of the Productioi, Code.
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