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Manitoba Film Classification Board
The Manitoba Film Classification Board (MFCB) was a provincial government organization responsible for rating films and video games rented, sold, or shown in the province of Manitoba. In mid 2018, the Board was dissolved, with its duties being outsourced to British Columbia for film classifications, and transferred to the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) for video games.
The MFCB consisted of a minimum of 16 community members, and was tasked with providing ratings information about film, videos, DVDs, computer and video games distributed in Manitoba.
Film censorship in Manitoba began in 1911 with An Act to Regulate Moving Picture Exhibitions. As Winnipeg was the only place in the province showing films, such censorship would the responsibility of civic government.
In 1916, as films began showing in other centres, the Manitoba Censor Board (MCB) was created under the Public Amusements Act (assented 10 March 1916), with regulation by the Amusements Act soon after. Manitoba would not be the only jurisdiction to establish a film censor board in the wake of cinema:
The proliferation of film censor boards in Canada in the quarter century following the birth of the cinema mirrored, to a degree, the situation in the United States where, from 1907 onwards, state and city bodies sought to control the content of motion pictures. Each Canadian province had its own jurisdiction by the 1930s.
— James M. Skinner, deputy presiding member of the MFCB (1981-1987)
Only two classifications—general and adult—were used by MCB; all films were permissible to everyone since any undesirable material was removed by film editing. (In cases where editing was not possible, films were banned.) By 1933, "permissiveness on the screen had reached a peak with the phenomenal popularity of Mae West, whose dialogue was peppered with innuendo and double entendres."
Until 1934, the Board fell under the Treasury Department, forming part of the section devoted to collecting the amusement taxes. However, public concern would develop over the MCB's dual and conflicting role as the body responsible for both censoring film and taxing film.
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Manitoba Film Classification Board
The Manitoba Film Classification Board (MFCB) was a provincial government organization responsible for rating films and video games rented, sold, or shown in the province of Manitoba. In mid 2018, the Board was dissolved, with its duties being outsourced to British Columbia for film classifications, and transferred to the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) for video games.
The MFCB consisted of a minimum of 16 community members, and was tasked with providing ratings information about film, videos, DVDs, computer and video games distributed in Manitoba.
Film censorship in Manitoba began in 1911 with An Act to Regulate Moving Picture Exhibitions. As Winnipeg was the only place in the province showing films, such censorship would the responsibility of civic government.
In 1916, as films began showing in other centres, the Manitoba Censor Board (MCB) was created under the Public Amusements Act (assented 10 March 1916), with regulation by the Amusements Act soon after. Manitoba would not be the only jurisdiction to establish a film censor board in the wake of cinema:
The proliferation of film censor boards in Canada in the quarter century following the birth of the cinema mirrored, to a degree, the situation in the United States where, from 1907 onwards, state and city bodies sought to control the content of motion pictures. Each Canadian province had its own jurisdiction by the 1930s.
— James M. Skinner, deputy presiding member of the MFCB (1981-1987)
Only two classifications—general and adult—were used by MCB; all films were permissible to everyone since any undesirable material was removed by film editing. (In cases where editing was not possible, films were banned.) By 1933, "permissiveness on the screen had reached a peak with the phenomenal popularity of Mae West, whose dialogue was peppered with innuendo and double entendres."
Until 1934, the Board fell under the Treasury Department, forming part of the section devoted to collecting the amusement taxes. However, public concern would develop over the MCB's dual and conflicting role as the body responsible for both censoring film and taxing film.