CENSORING THE "MOVIES."
WORK OF THE BRITISH BOARD. Times—Sydnvy Sua Special Cables. Received 16, 6.55 p.m. London, February 16. During 1913 the British Board of Film Censure, dealing with the world's output, examined 7,628,931 feet of films, comprising 7486 subjects. Of these, 6861 were passed for universal exhibition. The reasons for rejections included cruelty to animals, indecorous dancing, impropriety of conduct and dress, executions, operations, materialisation of Christ and the Almighty, and foreign 1' customs abhorrent to British ideas, painful insanity scenes, morbid death scenes, and incentives to crime.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 17 February 1914, Page 5
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89CENSORING THE "MOVIES." Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 17 February 1914, Page 5
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