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this country into a more intimate touch with foreign nations, and their work in this direction deserves praise.
The motion picture industry is recognized by President Coolidge as one of the leading businesses in the United States, and as such he feels the Government should encourage it in every legitimate way.
Following the shelving of the Upshaw bill, two further attempts to secure federal regulation and supervision of the motion picture industry were made. At the Seventieth Congress, Senator Smith W. Brookhart sponsored a bill 19 which was designed primarily to prevent any restraint upon free competition in the production, distribution, and exhibition of copyright motion picture films. The Brookhart bill was championed by the advocates of federal supervision of motion pictures because it would render block booking and so-called "forced" and "blind" buying unlawful.
The Hudson bill 20 would create a Federal Film Inspection Bureau, attached to the Department of Commerce. The bureau would be charged with the responsibility of inspecting, classifying, and cataloguing all films and advertising materials incidental thereto, before the entrance of films into interstate or foreign commerce. The bill also proposes "to protect the motion picture industry against unfair trade practices and monopoly, to provide just settlement of complaints of unfair dealings, to provide for the manufacture of wholesome motion pictures at the source of production, to create a Federal Motion Picture Commission to define its powers, and for other purposes".
With the introduction of talking pictures the problem of censorship assumed an importance even greater than it had had formerly. In the era of silent films, although censorship was expensive and at times very unsatisfactory to all parties concerned, generally speaking it involved a rather
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20 H.R. 13686. Representative Grant M. Hudson, in discussing his bill before the House in March, 1930, declared, "I am not concerned with the censorship of this matter but I am concerned with this unfair federal trade practice of block booking and blind booking. I want that done away with and that is the main intent of the bill."