BBFC History: 1950

• increasing afluence after wars
• youth group became an attractive target for consumer goods (to brand teenager) as had disposable income
• 1951 introduction of the X category which excluded under 16s (incoporating old H category)
• board still holding on to role as protector of moral standards - giving films some restriction
• growing concerns of teenage criminality and hooliganism - raised issues with and "the wild one" which took 13 years to recieve  a classification as was seen as hooliganism that was influencing riots in seaside towns 
• BBFC longstanding policy on no nudity as thought would encourage sexual exploitation.
• controversial film Garden of Eden which contained nudity which BBFC didnt like initially but gave in and gave it an A rating as so many local authorites overruled them
• board still concerned over overall message of the film and its effect on society and how partents would react to films and still quite tight on language
• theme of capital punishment on agenda
• Arthur Watkins resigned and was replaced by John Nichols for 2 years, and the John trevelyan took over the role and wanted to shift the X category from horror and continental films to serious British Films
• soical and class upheaval after war
• introduction of Obscene Publications Act (1959)