CENSORSHIP OF FILMS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21409, 27 February 1935, Page 12

CENSORSHIP OF FILMS

♦ RESOLUTION OF METHODIST CONFERENCE ,I'KESS ASSOCIATION TKI.EGJIA.M.) DUNEDIN, February 26. Some discussion took place at the annual conference of the Methodist Church to-day on the standard of motion pictures, and the attitude of church members to undesirable films. Several speakers immediately objected that the difficulty arose that they could not know beforehand what were good and what were objectionable films. A suggestion was made that the newspapers, or failing them, the Methodist Church paper, should publish an unbiased opinion dividing pictures into three classes, those fit for children, those fit for young people, and those fit for adults. The Rev. E. S. Emett said that such a resolution treated the conference in a childish way. He considered it was a reflection on the common sense of church people. The conference carried the following resolution:—"The conference, while expressing sincere appreciation of the efforts of the picture censorship reform committees to secure stricter Government censorship of films and posters, regrets that the present position leaves much to be desired, more particularly in regard to the objectionable character of advertising posters exhibited in all our main thoroughfares. We therefore urge the Government to undertake stricter censorship."