Original New York State Division of Motion Pictures License Application, circa 1960

New York: New York State Education Department, Circa 1960. Vintage application for an original license from the State of New York Education Department, Division of Motion Pictures, circa 1960.

From 1925 to 1965, an application form was required to be submitted for every motion picture screened in New York State. New York State's Motion Picture Division, and its predecessor, the Motion Picture Commission, reviewed each film intended for screening in New York State, and issued a license for exhibition for a film meeting professional standards unless said film was judged "obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, sacrilegious or of such character that its exhibition would tend to corrupt morals or to incite crime."

8.5 x 11 inches. Recto only. Near Fine.

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