FILMS OF CRIME.
“MUST GO” SAYS MINISTER. PLAIN REPLY TO DEPUTATION. By Telegraph—Press Association. "Wellington, Last Night A representative deputation from tho Film-renters’ Association waited on the Minister for Internal Affairs to-day regarding the film censorship. The Minister plainly told th* deputation that after threa months all American or other low grade pictures depicting vice, crime, acts of violence, etc., must go. They would not be to! erated any longer in New Zealand.
The manager of the Kings’ Cinema Theatre, Stratford, has decided to hold a secret ballot of the views of the public attending his theatre, on the proposals of the Minister of Internal Affairs to eliminate sensationalism from the pictures to be screened in the Dominion (writes our correspondent). The ballot paper will contain a. copy of the Minister’s letter to the film importers and the lines: “I vote for the above proposals” and “I vote against the above proposals.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 5
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152FILMS OF CRIME. Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 5
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