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Luton MP, Graham Bright, Has Won Strong Support For His Bill Controlling Video Nasties From The Beds Federation Of Women's Institutes

1984 , Luton (Bedfordshire)

Cat no. 85537

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WI representative explains concern about some types of video entertainment.

Brief scenes of video cases on display in a video shop, and film posters in the window. Sign for the Video Trade Association (VTA). Iris England is interviewed on behalf of the Bedfordshire County Federation of Women’s Institutes, standing outside W.I. House in Bedford. She says that members are concerned about some of the kinds of video that young children may watch on video players when visiting other people’s homes. She describes those videos causing concern as ‘really nasty, horrendous pieces of so-called entertainment”. The last few seconds of the interview are without sound. The reporter was Owen Spencer-Thomas for this short video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia that Luton MP, Graham Bright, is gaining support for his bill in favour of controlling content summarised as “video nasties”.

Keywords

Videos; Censorship; Video classification; Video sale; Video hire; Entertainment; Video shops; Women’s organisations

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In 1984 Conservative MP Graham Bright introduced a bill which was passed as the Video Recordings Act. It gave statutory power to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), making it illegal to sell or supply a video which had not been examined and classified by the Board. This controlled public arrangements around access to extreme content of the kind which had contributed to a press frenzy around video nasties.

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Luton MP, Graham Bright, Has Won Strong Support For His Bill Controlling Video Nasties From The Beds Federation Of Women's Institutes

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