Birth Control

Name: Birth Control
Director: Margaret Sanger
Released: 1917-01-01

1917 film

FilmfilmQ4916995

Released: 1917
Director: Margaret Sanger
Screenwriter: Margaret Sanger
Producer: Margaret Sanger
Cast: Margaret Sanger
Genre: documentary film
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0168512/Retrieved 2016-05-09
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Country of origin: United States

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Birth Control is a lost 1917 American documentary film produced by and starring Margaret Sanger and describing her family planning work. It was the first film banned under the 1915 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, which held that the exhibition of films did not constitute free speech.

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Main subject: health care
Title: Birth Control
Color: black-and-white
Copyright status: public domain applies to jurisdiction: United States
Different from: Birth Control
State of transmission: lost

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