"MORBID" WAR FILM
George Smith, a picture-house proprietor, was summoned at Liverpool' exhibiting a picture entitled 'A Patriot of France,' to which the poiic9 objet -ed on the ground that it exhibited too much of the morbid and troubled side of the wac. Counsel who defended said it was absurd to talk of the morbid side of war after eleven months of it. The more tho. British public knew of German methods of warfare, the better it would be for u.=. Several independent witnesses saiu the picture would stimulate recruiting. The summons was dismissed,'
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Evening Star, Issue 15899, 3 September 1915, Page 1
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94"MORBID" WAR FILM Evening Star, Issue 15899, 3 September 1915, Page 1
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