Curtain Up, Please!
"HIS week, resisting (without inordinate difficulty) the temptation to display a picture of Miss Jane Russell, I have included at the foot of this page something which exhibitors do not seem nearly so enthusiastic about, if footage is anything to go by. The censor’s cer- . tificate-which by law precedes every newsreel, short subject and feature film shown at the cinema-must be at least six feet in film-length for pictures of 3000 feet and over, and three feet in length for shorter films. These minima were fixed in the days of the silent . film, when pictures passed through the projector at half today’s speed. so that the regulation-far from being exacting today barely serves its original purpose of making the certificate readable. ven so, and here is my complaint, exhibitors (or a large number of them) will persist in projecting most of it on
their beautiful, beautiful curtains. Now I like to read the certificate, I > like to know just how long, a film is (and whether I will be sauntering or sprinting for the tram); if ‘the certificate is restrictive in. any way, I want. to read all about that, too. And if the sounds of exasperation which I fréquently hear’ around -me mean anything, other people feel as I do. Most of all, of course, I like to see the law observed in the spirit as well as in. the letter,, Curtain up, gentlemen, please!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 18
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239Curtain Up, Please! New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 18
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