OLYMPIC GAMES FILM WITHDRAWN

Chronicle (Levin), 30 April 1946, Page 5

OLYMPIC GAMES FILM WITHDRAWN

WFLI.IXGTOX, April 29: A Dennan motion pieture dealing ' ith the olvmpie (Jani'es in Berlin in 1. 2b, wliieh was to have beeji widely •eoun to seeondary sehool pupils and r emligrs of sjiorting and other bodies, : a- been u ithdrawn by the Government. Wio-n the I'rime .Minister, Hon. P. j :.-iscr, was asked tonight to eomment ■ 1 he wi't hhohling of the film from exoi'iiion, he said it had come to his not- ■ ' ' ■ that the iilm contained a good deal • i Xa/.i projiaganda which should not be -liown, particularly to children arid yt'.ng persons. He had, therefore, had Iilm withdrawn from exhibition. "The Iilm,'' said AFr. Fraser, "is beku, examined with a view to cutting '•"t all elements of Xazi projiaganda '•••ih direct and indireet, and reeon--tnieting it in order that the undoubt- ' dly good athletie material rnav be "tade available for the benelit of those icw-rested in athletics." The Prime -b inister added that obviously it would Fe \aluable for athletes to see rIoav nmtion pietures of the world 's finest atiiletes of 19.'!(> in action. Xew ZeaIrmlers in particular would appreciate ihe scquence in which the whole of the l-~'"i metre race was sliown with Loveh'ek's magnificent victory. j\Ir. Fraser ^ftid he was informed all the really eduertive portions of the film eould be retfoned and sliown after the poisonous jagan propagantja of Nazism witb, wliieh the film was saturated, had beenj '■liiniiinted.