FILM POSTERS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26513, 30 August 1951, Page 2

FILM POSTERS

METHODIST SYNOD’S DISCUSSION “INDECENT” MAGAZINES CONDEMNED Approval of the prosecution of the editor of a modern journal for publishing indecent matter was made in a resolution passed by the annual «l of the Methodist Church in Canterbury yesterday. A recommendation was also made to the InterChurch Council on Public Affairs to investigate the character of similar undesirable literature at present produced for sale. “The council’s attention should also be drawn to certain types of film posters which, increasingly, are an offence to those of refined taste,” said the Rev. Raymond Dudley. Many posters and drawings were linked with sex, and nearly all jokes in the salacious journals being published had sex meanings, he said. “Ten years ago, we would not have tolerated it. Now we pass by as these things leer down at us from the hoardings," added Mr Dudley. Something more definite should be done about the problem, said the Rev. J. S. Waite. The Gospels were being Toduced by the British and Foreign Bible Society in magazine form. These were excellent publications. “These magazines are now being put alongside the more salubrious ones in doctors’ and dentists’ rooms, and it has been found that men and women prefer to read the better publications," he said. A resolution stating that an effective method of combating the sale of undesirable literature would be to take effective steps to support the publication of good magazines in a popular form, was approved.