SORDID FILMS
CONTINUOUS SUCCESSION IN BRITAIN, ULTIMATUM - BY CHIEF CENSOR, IJ.i’.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) • ‘ •• LONDON, Jan. 3. Mr Short, the chief censor, has sent'the following ultimatum to all Him companies, British and foreign, says the Evening ' News : “It has ; been regretfully noticed that films produced in which the development of the theme necessitates a continuous succession ..of grossly brutal and sordid scenes are steadily increasing, with,. in • the case, of sound .films, sounds accentuating situations nauseating to the listener. 1 No modifications, however drastic,. can suit such films' to public exhibition. The hoard, therefore; notifies, the trade that no film will be certified whoso theme', without any. redeeming characteristic, depends upon the intense brutality and unrelieved sordidness 1 of 1 tlie scenes depicted.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11406, 6 January 1931, Page 2
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