The 50's and 60's Arab movies: No codes!?

Going 70 years back, the Arab Cinema was 180 degrees different.
Not only technically, but also the content of films were very different than today's. During the 50's and 60's era, most movies used to focus on men and women righteous and non-righteous relationships with few films talking about more serious topics. Women's clothes were a lot more revealing, in fact over exposing. A bellydancer was one important figure/character in a movie, and most of the times, the heroine of the movie herself dances! More kissing scenes were seen back then, and intimate scenes between the hero and heroine were something accepted and usually not censored.

    



However; today the case is greatly different. Due to the digital revolution that affected the movie industry, thus; the Arab's cinema as well, the technical procedures of producing and filming a movie has been entirely changed. But not only technically, however, the content differed a great deal as well. Cinema is now paid more attention, and the industry is growing bigger day by day; many talented young people are joining the industry to become filmmakers, producers and others. Those young people are influenced by the foreign cinema and their open-mindness they gained from education which made them pioneers in the Arab cinema industry. Many of them are innovators, and this is how the Arab cinema developed. Movies are no more with just only shallow-crystal-clear plots and themes; genres became more varied; more serious movies have been produced and movies today are very diversed; you can find the romantic, the comic, the tragic, the serious, the adventurous, and the one serving a particular human cause. The mentality of people changed, thus; the cinema changed with it. Today, censorship heavily exsist in the Arab cinema in general, especially in the gulf area; it is more enforced than in Lebanon, for example. Kissing scenes are barely found in Arab movies, and nudity or obscenity as well as voilent scenes are all stricty censored in foreign or American movies.

 



However, is censorship fully positive or can it be negative sometimes? Do Arab countries have to go on censoring many scenes or just join others and view the rating system as sufficiently enough to rely on?