I got this bit from the SBBFC site and added it because it shows what the Obscene Publication’s Act was in a detailed way. With this and Mark Kermode’s blog it will help when talking about how my focus films and over video nasties where banned in shops.“It is illegal to publish a work which is obscene. The Obscene Publications Act (OPA) was extended to include films and videos in 1977. Prior to that the only legal test applied to films was the much vaguer test of common law indecency. Under the OPA a film may be deemed obscene when, taken as a whole, the work has a tendency to 'deprave and corrupt' ‘(ie make morally bad) in parentheses a significant proportion of those likely to see it. It is important to note that a film must be considered as a whole and that individual scenes must not be judged out of the wider context of the complete work. Even a film that would normally be considered obscene can be shown if 'it is in the interests of science, art, literature, or learning or of other objects of general concern'.”
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