ATTITUDE IN ENGLAND
HOME SECRETARY EXPLAINS LONDON, Thursday. In the House of Commons the Home Secretary. Sir William JoynsonHlcks, in answer to a question, said he was glad of the opportunity to correct misapprehension relating to the film “Dawn,” based on the death of Miss Cavell.
All the statutory powers for controlling the character of films were vested in the local licensing authorities, who relied in all exceptional cases upon an unofficial body known as the British Board of Film Censors.
It would obviously be improper for the Government to interfere with the discretion of the local authorities, except where public money was concerned, to the extent of affecting international relations, when it should intimate its views before the licensing authority had reached a decision. This was the only action the Government had taken regarding the film.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 9
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