Introduction - Back in the day, the film stock used to be violently flammable. The fashion of film screening had just started in the west.  In 1897 during a  film screening in Paris, the stock caught fire and a massive fire broke out killing 126 people. Following the event, similar incidents took place at several other places during screenings. This resulted in the world’s first cinematograph legislation in Britain in 1909, intending to improve safety standards by controlling the issue of cinema licenses. The 1909 act made license compulsory for public screening and with this also came the regulations on the content. Soon after in 1912, the British Board of Film Censor was formed.