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'''Location:''' Six video stores, one private home, and a library in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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'''Description of Artwork:''' The 1979 widely acclaimed film is about a young boy who, during the rise and fall of Nazism in Danzig, Germany, refuses to grow and assume adult responsibility. The scene in controversy depicts the boy briefly performing oral sex on a teenage girl.

'''Description of Artwork:''' The 1979 widely acclaimed film is about a young boy who, during the rise and fall of Nazism in Danzig, Germany, refuses to grow and assume adult responsibility. The scene causing the controversy depicts the boy briefly performing oral sex on a teenage girl.

'''The Incident:''' "Oklahomans for Children and Families" (OCAF), an "antipornography" group that claimed over 13,000 members, brought the film to the attention of the prosecutor. Judge Freeman reviewed the controversial scene and declared that the film was obscene under Oklahoma law. Police then removed the film from at least one private home, six video stores and took possession of the film that had been borrowed from a library.

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 '''Location:''' Six video stores, one private home, and a library in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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-'''Description of Artwork:''' The 1979 widely acclaimed film is about a young boy who, during the rise and fall of Nazism in Danzig, Germany, refuses to grow and assume adult responsibility.  The scene in controversy depicts the boy briefly performing oral sex on a teenage girl.
+'''Description of Artwork:''' The 1979 widely acclaimed film is about a young boy who, during the rise and fall of Nazism in Danzig, Germany, refuses to grow and assume adult responsibility.  The scene causing the controversy depicts the boy briefly performing oral sex on a teenage girl.
 '''The Incident:''' "Oklahomans for Children and Families" (OCAF), an "antipornography" group that claimed over 13,000 members, brought the film to the attention of the prosecutor.  Judge Freeman reviewed the controversial scene and declared that the film was obscene under Oklahoma law.  Police then removed the film from at least one private home, six video stores and took possession of the film that had been borrowed from a library.