FANFARE FILMS v. CENSOR BOARD

[No. 201, September Term, 1963.]

234 Md. 10 (1964)

197 A.2d 839

FANFARE FILMS, INC. v. MOTION PICTURE CENSOR BOARD OF STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 4, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph S. Kaufman, with whom was C. Morton Goldstein on the brief, for the appellant.

Robert F. Sweeney, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General of Maryland, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.


HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Fanfare Films, Inc., was ordered by the Maryland State Board of Censors of motion pictures (the Board) to delete from the film entitled "Have Figure — Will Travel" certain scenes showing girls unclothed while cruising on a boat. It took an appeal to the Baltimore City Court, which affirmed the order of the Board. In its appeal to this Court, Fanfare argues that the Maryland...

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