...within the free speech and free press guaranty of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Pp. 499-502. (a) It cannot be doubted that motion pictures are a significant medium for the communication of ideas. Their importance as an organ of public opinion is not lessened by the fact that they are designed to...

...characters, a location, a plot, a diversion from the main theme and usually a moral. As we said in Burstyn: "They may affect public attitudes and behavior in...shaping of thought which characterizes all artistic expression." 343 US, at 501. What may be to one viewer the glorification of an idea as being "desirable,...

...characters, a location, a plot, a diversion from the main theme and usually a moral. As we said in Burstyn: "They may affect public attitudes and behavior in...shaping of thought which characterizes all artistic expression." 343 US, at 501. What may be to one viewer the glorification of an idea as being "desirable,...

...to First Amendment protection, the Court said . . . that moving pictures affect public attitudes in ways "ranging from direct espousal of a political...shaping of thought which characterizes all artistic expression." However, this statement in itself recognizes that there are degrees of speech. (1,2) There...

...the state ruling and ordered that the film be shown without interference.144 The Court now found that "it cannot be doubted that motion pictures are a significant medium for the communication of ideas," said Justice Tom C. Clark, writing for the Court. Movies "may affect public attitudes and behavior...

...speech and press guaranty of the First and Fourteenth Amendments."9 In so holding, the Court explained: It cannot be doubted that motion pictures are a significant...public attitudes and behavior in a variety of ways, varying from direct espousal of a political or social doctrine to the subtle 2. See, for example, Zechariah...

...publication, they later ruled otherwise. In Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson the Supreme Court opined: It cannot be doubted that motion pictures are a significant...a variety of ways, ranging from direct espousal of political or social doctrine to the subtle shaping of thought which characterizes all artistic expression....

...or 'the press.'" Clark looked at each element of Mutual v. Ohio. "It cannot be doubted," he wrote, "that motion pictures are a significant medium for the communication of ideas." Their ability to communicate ideas "is not lessened by the fact that they are designed to entertain...

...the city of Atlanta. In the Miracle case the Court could proceed more cautiously in affirming only that "motion pictures are a significant medium for the communication of ideas" 20 and should be "included within the free speech and free press guaranty of the First and Fourteenth...

...which the First Amendment, through the Fourteenth, secures to any form of "speech" or "the press." It cannot be doubted that motion pictures are a significant...shaping of thought which characterizes all artistic expression. The importance of motion pictures as an organ of public opinion is not lessened by the...