"Censored! Only in Canada-Pity.

In December of 1894 the Edison Kinetoscope made its Canadan debut in Toronto, spawning a new form of art and entertainment in Canada-the moving picture.

By December of 1908 the Toronto City Council was petitioning the Police Commissioners Board to grant no more licenses for moving picture shows until the city was granted the power to regulate them. The battle was on.

Censored! Only in Canada reveals, for the first time, correspondence and documents from previously confidential files of Canada's film censors. The result is an intriguing expose of how film censors have determined the destiny of film in Canada. Malcolm Dean's fascinating text contrasts the tragedy of censorship with its innate humor. It is the first complete history of film censorship in Canada, and an authoritative source of Canadian film history. Censored! Only in Canada includes stills from many censored films, tables, breif histories of U.S. and British film censorship, as well as a survey of film censorship legislation around the world."-- from the back of the book.

Contents: Foreword by Gerald Pratley, Acknowledgments, Introductions; Chapter 1 The Call to Arms: 1896 to world war one; Chapter 2 The Censors and Society: World war one to World war two; Chapter 3 Innocence Lost: World war Two to 1959; Chapter 4 Liberty and Licence: 1960 to 1969; Chapter 5 Problems and Enigmas: 1970 to 1980; Chapter 6 The Provincial Censors: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan,The Yukon; Chapter 7 Federal Censorship: Proposed, Purported, Political; Chapter 8 Last Tango in Ottawa; Chapter 9 The Pseudoscience of Censorship; Addendum 1 History of British Censorship; Addendum 2 History of U.S. Censorship; Ap