VULGAR FILMS.

Shannon News, 11 March 1927, Page 2

VULGAR FILMS.

CENSOR'S SCATHING COMMENT. NO APPEAL TO PEOPLE OF TASTE MELBOUENE, March. 9. The Commonwealth film censor's report for 1926 scathingly comments on certain classes of imported films. It, declares that what the cinema wants is more refinement of feeling and sentiment. A very amazing indictment which might easily be brought against it, says the report, is not that it is immoral, but it is vulgar. It cannot be said there has been any general improve ment in the quality of important films, and asks why it is necessary so often for film women to appear in the act of undressing or engaged in toilet, and why should the climax of so many films be an attack on innocent women. Most people of taste find these scenes neither interesting nor exciting, but merely dull. Censors will continue to eliminate looEje- scenes, also honeymoon scenes, unless it is evident that.the motive behind the latter is genuinely artistic or dramatic. Last year Australia imported 15,586,000 feet of American films and 475,000 feet of British.