PICTURE CENSORSHIP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 72, 18 November 1912, Page 5

PICTURE CENSORSHIP.

A DEPUTATION’S VIEWS. Sydney, November 17. Cinematograph managers Jiave endeavoured to induce the Hon. J. Flowers to modify the regulations with regard to moving pictures. They declare that they will cripple the picture business. Prohibiting the representation of acts of lawlessness is harsh in the extreme, because practically no drama can be const rut’t,hd without some wrongdoing to point the moral. The other regulations also render the hu.iness unworkable, if strictly applied.

Regulations were gazetted on November (3th governing kinemalograp'a exhibitions. The regulations prohibit representations of scenes suggesting immorality, indecency, executions, murders, and other revolting signts; scenes of debauchery, low habits, and other scenes tending to demoralise the young, pictures, of successful crime, such as bushranging, robberies, and other lawless acts which may reason ably be considered to have an injurious influence on youthful minds. Programmes must bo submitted to the police for approval, accompanied by a synopsis of each item. The films must if necessary, be screened for the,information of the police. Rending the decision of the Minister, the censor may require the exhibition of a film to be deferred.