Hollywood studios clean movies all the time. Anytime a movie with adult situations, sexual content, graphic violence, or lewd or objectionable language is shown on broadcast television or basic cable or seen in an airplane, an edited copy of the original movie or a “cleaned up” edit of the original movie is shown.
Clean Movies
Clean Movies are films which have had the objectionable portions edited out. Typically R-rated movies, and some PG-13 movies contain scenes, plot elements, adult situations, sex scenes, nudity, violence, or profanity that are deemed inappropriate for viewing by minors.
Families have been editing movies in an effort to make previously good stories with unnecessary or gratuitously vulgar scenes appropriate for sensitive, young viewers or family viewing for years.
The idea of providing edited movies to others as a business really caught fire in the 1990’s when several companies launched movie rental and sales outlets to provide edited or cleaned up VHS and DVD movies to consumers who had been looking for alternatives and solutions to the lack of quality family friendly films coming out of the Hollywood movie mills.
CleanFlicks was launched out of the desire to create clean movies for family and friends by systematically editing out objectionable content like swearing, sexual situations, adult situations, nudity, and graphic violence from previously released films. These edited DVDs became a hit with:
Families who were looking for movies they could enjoy together.
Educators who were looking for clean films to share with their class of historical, religious or moral significance
Dentists who needed a way to keep young minds occupied while sitting in the dental chair but not wanting to risk the wrath or an angry mother or father for having taught “Timmy” a new swear word or curse
Prison wardens who were restricted from showing films above a PG rating, and of course
Religious leaders who wanted to share movies with interesting messages with their congregations.
Clean Movies For Sale and Rent
Clean Flicks, among other companies opened shop selling and renting clean movies to the market. They opened retail stores in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada via franchising deals which supplied the edited DVD masters to the store operators. Store owners sold then later rented edited movies, DVDs and sell clean films to customers in their areas.
Cleaning Movies & The Legal Challenge
Hollywood acted aggressively to sue the growing industry in an effort to stop the selling of its content in altered form.
The “Clean Movie” industry tried to protect itself initially by selling edited movies as both the original copy, grommeted into the DVD cover, along with the easily removable edited version of the DVD. By doing this, the industry continued to provide the studios with a royalty stream, and at the same time provided Hollywood with an additional market — one that it likely wouldn’t have access to otherwise.
Apparently however, the market was too small to satiate the directors’ guids’ fear of “censorship”, or their intense hatred for conservative Christians, the LDS church and others who made up the bulk of those interested in edited DVDs. The waged a legal war, by suing for copyright infringement arguing that the directors had the right to control the way their material was sold to the public.
The industry made the argument for consumer rights, or the right to choice and to control what they and their families would watch in the privacy of their own homes.
In 2006 a federal circuit judge in Colorado sided with the Directors and Studios and against the fledgling edited DVD businesses. Nearly all the companies providing clean edited DVDs for sale or rent were forced out of business. While prospects were viewed as strong for an appeal, the financial burden for such a small industry against the titans of American media were too great to take on.
In a settlement agreement, the companies were obligated to liquidate their remaining stock of edited films and cease operations.
For those who still wanted to buy edited movies, there are very few places who still make them available, and even fewer who will sell to the general public.
Several websites have been launched to try to fill this demand, however, for the most part, the director’s guild has been very efficient at putting these companies out of business. There are a few retail outlets in Idaho that will still sell or rent edited DVDs however there are strict requirements who they will sell or rent to — you have to have been a previous member of their club. They are so small that they stay off the radar of Hollywood’s New York legal team and they have no Internet presence to speak of so they maintain a low profile.
If you’d like to speak out and tell Congress that you want the right to choose what your family views in the privacy of your own home, please help us and sign the petition. We appreciate your support and look forward to the day when we can regain control over the messages that enter our homes.
Clean Movies
Hollywood studios clean movies all the time. Anytime a movie with adult situations, sexual content, graphic violence, or lewd or objectionable language is shown on broadcast television or basic cable or seen in an airplane, an edited copy of the original movie or a “cleaned up” edit of the original movie is shown.
Clean Movies
Clean Movies are films which have had the objectionable portions edited out. Typically R-rated movies, and some PG-13 movies contain scenes, plot elements, adult situations, sex scenes, nudity, violence, or profanity that are deemed inappropriate for viewing by minors.
Edited Movies
Families have been editing movies in an effort to make previously good stories with unnecessary or gratuitously vulgar scenes appropriate for sensitive, young viewers or family viewing for years.
The idea of providing edited movies to others as a business really caught fire in the 1990’s when several companies launched movie rental and sales outlets to provide edited or cleaned up VHS and DVD movies to consumers who had been looking for alternatives and solutions to the lack of quality family friendly films coming out of the Hollywood movie mills.
CleanFlicks was launched out of the desire to create clean movies for family and friends by systematically editing out objectionable content like swearing, sexual situations, adult situations, nudity, and graphic violence from previously released films. These edited DVDs became a hit with:
Clean Movies For Sale and Rent
Clean Flicks, among other companies opened shop selling and renting clean movies to the market. They opened retail stores in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada via franchising deals which supplied the edited DVD masters to the store operators. Store owners sold then later rented edited movies, DVDs and sell clean films to customers in their areas.
Cleaning Movies & The Legal Challenge
Hollywood acted aggressively to sue the growing industry in an effort to stop the selling of its content in altered form.
The “Clean Movie” industry tried to protect itself initially by selling edited movies as both the original copy, grommeted into the DVD cover, along with the easily removable edited version of the DVD. By doing this, the industry continued to provide the studios with a royalty stream, and at the same time provided Hollywood with an additional market — one that it likely wouldn’t have access to otherwise.
Apparently however, the market was too small to satiate the directors’ guids’ fear of “censorship”, or their intense hatred for conservative Christians, the LDS church and others who made up the bulk of those interested in edited DVDs. The waged a legal war, by suing for copyright infringement arguing that the directors had the right to control the way their material was sold to the public.
The industry made the argument for consumer rights, or the right to choice and to control what they and their families would watch in the privacy of their own homes.
In 2006 a federal circuit judge in Colorado sided with the Directors and Studios and against the fledgling edited DVD businesses. Nearly all the companies providing clean edited DVDs for sale or rent were forced out of business. While prospects were viewed as strong for an appeal, the financial burden for such a small industry against the titans of American media were too great to take on.
In a settlement agreement, the companies were obligated to liquidate their remaining stock of edited films and cease operations.
For those who still wanted to buy edited movies, there are very few places who still make them available, and even fewer who will sell to the general public.
Several websites have been launched to try to fill this demand, however, for the most part, the director’s guild has been very efficient at putting these companies out of business. There are a few retail outlets in Idaho that will still sell or rent edited DVDs however there are strict requirements who they will sell or rent to — you have to have been a previous member of their club. They are so small that they stay off the radar of Hollywood’s New York legal team and they have no Internet presence to speak of so they maintain a low profile.
If you’d like to speak out and tell Congress that you want the right to choose what your family views in the privacy of your own home, please help us and sign the petition. We appreciate your support and look forward to the day when we can regain control over the messages that enter our homes.