UNDESIRABLE FILMS
BRITISH CENSOR WARNS PRODUCERS DISGRACEFUL INCIDENTS ( United Service) LONDON, Thursday. The British film censor’s report for 1928 strongly criticises films showing crimes. Mr. T. P. O’Connor, M.P., again sent a letter to the producers, emphasising that he would refuse to pass films in which crime was dominant or which illustrated methods of crime, even if the subject were comically treated, or criminals brought to retributiou. Eliminations were also made in scores of films which showed British uniformed officers in a disgraceful light, incidents derogatory to the British police, equivocal situations between white and other races, suggestive dancing, white slave traffic orgies, deliberate preparations for suicide, torture scenes and martyrdoms, exploiting victims, drunken women, and with inflammatory sub-titles.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 9
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119UNDESIRABLE FILMS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 9
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