X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Ontario Film Review Board


Dianne Poole

Poole also called for the Ontario Film Review Board to impose greater restrictions on sexually explicit and violent materials entering the country.

Ontario Film Review Board

1940: The March of Time newsreel episode "Canada At War" was banned until the 1940 federal election was completed, as Premier Mitchell Hepburn charged that the production was "pure political propaganda for the Mackenzie King Government".

The film was defended by artist Arthur Heming and others, while it was approved by film review authorities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.



see also