Sickies Making FilmsSickies Making Films
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DVD, 2017
Current format, DVD, 2017, , No Longer Available."Decades before movies had a rating system, they had censors. Dating back to the silent era, seven states and dozens of cities across the United States empowered government-employed censors to cut films prior to their exhibition--or even ban them outright. Sickies Making Films uses the nation's longest running surviving censor board, the Maryland State Board of Censors (1916-1981) as a cinematic and often hilarious window into the tangled history of American movie censorship. Outspoken and unrepentant Mary Avara became the last censor standing--and her very public clashes with fellow Marylander John Waters, transgressive film's 'Pope of Trash,' entered the national spotlight. Using film clips, archival footage, and interviews with censored exhibitors and filmmakers, this riveting documentary explores the politics, prejudices, and personalities that controlled the moving images Americans consumed for decades"--Container.
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- Closed captioned.
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- Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
- Film producer, Screenwriter, Editor of moving image work
- Film producer, Director of photography
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- [San Francisco, California] : Video Project, [2017]
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