Under the . Constitution, the censors had every right to wield their scissors at whatever offended their eyes. In 1915, in Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, the Supreme Court ruled that the movies were not a revolutionary new communications medium but “a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit, like other spectacles, not to be regarded as part of the press of the country, or as organs of public opinion.”1 Being a commercial enterprise, motion pictures could be regulated and run out of town by cities, states, and, by logical and ominous extension,.
