Sunday 27 March 2011

History of the BBFC: How Has it Changed?

  • 'Censorship' has now become 'classification' in the Board's title, reflecting the more lenient approach to challenging material in films and the move away from such guidelines as the '43 Grounds for Deletion'.
  • The categories of film classification have changed a lot over the years, as 'A' and 'X' were replaced with '15', '18', '12', 'PG', 'R18', 'U', Uc', and most recently '12A'.
  • Constantly shifting public views and the resulting ammendments to laws have also greatly affected how the current BBFC is shaped, and on what values its classification process is based.
  • The BBFC has seen several leaders and directors, and each one tried to make the process less strict to allow films to be more expressive forms of artwork.
  • The introduction of multi-platform media and home cinema has given the BBFC a bigger workload due to so many titles coming out not only in cinemas, but on DVD and Blu-Ray, Video Games and Trailers - all requiring classification.

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