IMPORTED FILMS.
Censors' Scathing Report on Some Classes. VULGAR, NOT IMMORAL. MELBOURNE, March 9. Tlio report of the censors of films for tile Commonwealth for the year 192<> comments in scathing terms on certain classes of imported films. The report says that what the cinema needs is more refinement of feeling and sentiment. "A very damaging indictment which might easily be brought against it," says the report, "is, not that it is immoral, but that it is vulgar." "It cannot be said that there has been any general improvement in the quality of imported films." The report asks why it is so often necessary for women in pictures to appear in the act of undressing, or, when engaged on their toilet, and why the climax of so many films should be an attack on innocent women. Most people of taste find these scenes and also honeymoon scenes, neither interesting nor amusing, unless the evident motive behind the latter class of picture is genuinely artistic or dramatic. Last year Australia imported 1.1,580.000 feet of American films, and 475,000 feet of British films.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1927, Page 7
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