FILM CENSORSHIP OPPOSED
Views Of Mr G. B. de Mille (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) HOLLYWOOD January 23. Mr Cecil B. de Mille, < the film producer, honoured last night for “historic contributions to the American motion picture industry,” called for vigorous defence against censorship. “We do well to fight censorship,” he said, “but the best way to fight it is to give it no legitimate grounds for attacking us, while defending to the full our right to portray the world as the world is. ’ More than 800 persons attended a dinner to honour Mr de Mille, aged 74, who started in pictures 43 years ago. c He told them: “It would be really immoral for us to portray a world that contained no evil or a world in which evil was never strong or alluring. It would be immoral because it would be untrue. “There are well-meaning people who want art to be so antiseptic that, if they had their way, they would repeal the very definition of art as a mirror held up to nature. . . . “Neither motion pictures nor anv other art has the right to corrupt morals, but it has the right to be judged as an art and by judges who know what they are talking about”
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27876, 26 January 1956, Page 4
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