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Birth Control
Also known as The New World in the USA
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by [?] Margaret Sanger?

Cast: Margaret Sanger [herself]

Message Film Feature Corporation production; distributed on State Rights basis by [?] B.S. Moss Motion Picture Corporation? / Executive producer, B.S. Moss. Produced by Margaret Sanger and Frederick A. Blossom. Scenario by Margaret Sanger. / Released April 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Courts refused to allow the film to be shown.

Documentary: Social.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Birth control

Listing updated: 6 April 2020.

References: Sloan-Loud pp. 86-89, 93, 146 : Website-IMDb.