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A COMPLAINT.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Kindly grant me space to protest against the exhibition of one of the films' shown last night by the Cinemeta graph Company at the Drill Hall, whioh to my mind, and that, I believe, of many others in the hall, was a blot upon a really good • programme of pictures. I refer to the picture of the so called "Hunting the Panther," though where the "hunting" came in it would be difficult to say. This film depicted the trapping and subsequent torture and execution (presumably for the benefit of the camera) of a fine specimen of a South American panther. As a nation we have long since left behind us such things as bear and bull baiting and like barbarities and it is hard that one should he subject to viewing such a. disgusting exhibition of cold-blooded cruelty as that portrayed in this picture, one in which no British sportsmen would have taken part—dirty work left in the hands of a low-down : Mexican "greaser." If the cinematograph is to be degraded to such usages as this, to bring vividly before us scenes which would not for a moment be tolerated in our own country, it will' mean that the companies showing these pictures will be left severely alone by many of those who now take pleasure in viewing the results of good animated photography.—l am, etc., ALGERNON E. s GREEN.

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Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 63, 16 March 1910, Page 5

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A COMPLAINT. Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 63, 16 March 1910, Page 5

A COMPLAINT. Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 63, 16 March 1910, Page 5