CENSORED GERMAN FILM.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 31 August 1925, Page 7

CENSORED GERMAN FILM.

PRINCE RUPPRECHT IN A MILITARY PARADE. Monarchist stock is' very low in Germany, wrote a correspondent ; from Berlin last month. Recently 1 reported how a telegram from the ex-Kaiser was suppressed by the Prussian Royalists, becaus© it was coached in a style too reminiscent of Kaiserly days. Now the ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria has com© under the ban. A few days ago there was a wonderful “military and colonial” parade at Munich in connection with the Colonial Exhibition there. The ex-Crown Prince attended, and troops and troopers went through drill before him with all the precision of a troop of ballet doing their “business.” Among those present was also An official cinematograph operator, who kept the ex-Crown Prince nicely in focus most of the time. Eventually the film came before the German Government’s film-censoring committee. It is rather noteworthy that it was a representative of the German Ministry of Defence who took objection to a great part of the film — “because there are circles in the country who -would dislike the idea of the ex-Crown Prince reviewing troops as the representative of the old system of government, seeing that the troops are upho’ders of the Republican Constitution.”

Thereupon the Court had a ‘long debate, and in the end a judgment worthy of Solomon was arrived at. Part of the film i n which the exCrown Prince is seen reviewing the Republican soldiers is cut out; the section- in which troops, representing Colonial warriors passed before him is allowed to remain. That part, it is thought, would not offend Republican sentimenets.