CENSORSHIP OF FILMS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 February 1935, Page 12

CENSORSHIP OF FILMS

METHODIST CHURCH VIEWS POSTERS ALSO UNDESIRABLE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Feb. 28. Some discussion took place at the annual conference of the .Methodist Church to-day on the question of. the standard of motion pictures and the attitude of church members to undesirable films. SeA-eral speakers immediately objected that the difficult)' arose that they could not know beforehand what were good and what were objectionable films. A suggestion Avas made that newspapers, or failing that the Methodist Church paper, should publish an unbiased opinion, dh-iding pictures into three classes, those fit for children, those fit for young people and those fit for adults.

The ReA r . E. S. Emett said that such a resolution treated the conference in a childish way. He considered it was a reflection on the commonsens’e of church people. The conference carried the folloAA'ing resolution: “The conference, while expressing sincere appreciation of the efforts of picture censorship reform committees to secure stricter Governent censorship of films and posters, regrets that the present position lea A res much to be desired, more particularly in regard to the objectionable character of advertising posters exhibited in all our main thoroughfares. We therefore urge the GoA’ornment to undertake stricter censorship.”