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This article is about the obsolete BBFC certificate. For the obsolete MPAA rating, see X rating. X certificate was an old BBFC certificate stating that children under 16 could not see a film. The age restriction was modified to 18 in compliance with the new …

Following a recommendation by the County Councils Association to replace the BBFC, the government established a committee chaired by Professor Kenneth Wheare to examine film censorship. The committee's findings were published in 1950 and proposed creation of four new certificates (X - films aimed at adults only, from which children should be ...

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) [1] is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus ...

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The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is an organisation that rates both films and home videos (it originally rated video games, until 2012, with the PEGI replacing it) in the United Kingdom. The rating system was introduced in 1912 and also rates videos.

As a result of changes to the Cinematograph Act, the X certificate is introduced. No children under the age of 16 are allowed to see an X film. This is the first mandatory age-restricted category. The BBFC rejects The Wild One on the grounds that it presents an 'unbridled spectacle of hooliganism'. It is not rated until 1967.

The X certificate was abolished on 1 November 1982, the BBFC finally answering Trevelyan 's second criticism by replacing it with the much more neutrally-named 18 certificate.

X (1951-1982) - This was the first BBFC certificate that explicitly excluded people under a certain age limit, in this case sixteen. The limit was raised to eighteen in 1970, and the X certificate was replaced by the 18 certificate in 1982.

May 23, 2019 · As Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top arrives on BFI Blu-ray, we trace the history of its notorious X certificate through 10 films. In 1912, the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC) was established as a non-governmental organisation responsible for the classification and censorship of films released nationally.