CENSORSHIP OF FILMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3028, 15 March 1917, Page 4

CENSORSHIP OF FILMS

SOME OBJECTIONABLE FEATURES. In the course of the dinner given In pioture theatre proprietors and managers at the Grand Hotel by Mr. Aleo Lorimoro, Mr. William Jolifie, the censor, related that he had only turned down one completely of th 6 900 odd he had witnessed in the past five months. Others had been cut, and he related how ho had ordered the cutting out of the sub-titles of the picture showing the submarino Deulschland. These sub-titles had glorified the prowess of the captain and crew of the submarine in having defeated the vigilance of the lvliolo of the Allied navies in a manner that was highly objeotionable. In another instance a pictnre set out to glorify the deeds of the I.W.W. and to vilify capital as against labour in a. fashion that did not commend itself to him, particularly as there were industrial troubles in New Zealand at the time. Tlio picturing of unduly horrible situations was also to bo deprecated. In that regard he referred to having to condemn the picture of_ a woman being guillotined. Mr. Joliffe said that his relations with i-lio picture people had been of the most pleasant nature up to the present, and he hoped that would continue to be the case.