Sickies Making Films (2018)

 'Sickies Making Films' is a documentary on the history of film censorship in the United States, most specifically the Maryland Board of Censors, the longest running and last state operated film censorship board in the country, it operated from 1916 to 1981. After the New York board was dissolved in 1965 due to a decision by the state Supreme Court, Maryland's was the last board standing, it continued to stand for another 16 years, largely at the grace of a sympathetic state board of appeals and the inability of the legislator to muster the votes to repeal it. The  tenacious three person committe was finally shuttered by the state early in the Reagan administration, not for ideological reasons but because the MBC cost more to operate then it generated in film licensing fees. I knew most of the genral cinema history presented in this film, but the Maryland stuff I was not familiar with. ***