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Rev Clifford Grey Twombley

Name:
Rev Clifford Grey Twombley
Role:
Pennsylvania Protestant clergyman

About

Pennsylvania Protestant clergyman and campaigner for coercive moral reform.  Initially an anti-prostitution campaigner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the early 1910s, he became a “Professional pamphleteer against the movies.”

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  • Twomblys pamphlet, The Moving Picture Menace Grows, advocating FMPC censorship policies.
  • The FMPCA, advertising its forthcoming conference, claims to want "Federal supervision, not censorship, of motion pictur...
  • 'And Still it Grows" motion pictures moral standards Production Code
  • A list of the Board members of the Motion Picture Research Council, with comments. "Professionals" include William H. S...
  • The Churchman attacks Hays and the industry in its editorials. They fight back through the motion picture magazines, en...
  • Concerning an anti-motion picture article written by Rev. C. G. Twombly entitled "Stop! Look! Listen! The Moving Picture...
  • Sending Hays a copy of Twombly's pamphlet "And Still It Grows," asking for comment. Hays replies, Couzens responds, 19 J...
  • The "New" Code of Morals for the Movies!"
  • Twomblys pamphlet, The Moving Picture Menace, advocating FMPC censorship policies.

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