FILM CENSORSHIP
THE EMBARGO ON CRIME
The Mbiister of Internal Affairs (Hon. G. J. Anderson) is preparing an. official letter embodying the conditions that he has laid down for film censorship. The letter summarises what he told the representatives of the film importers at the interview on February 4. and at the request of the importers he will-supply each of them, and also •each picture theatre in New Zealand with a cOpy. The letter will make ifT clear that the embargo against "crime pictures"-- isi intended to. apply to those pictures that make a feature of vice or crime, •or that appear to glorify it in anyway. The Minister has stated plainly that he has no intention of interfering with dramatisations of the classics, picture versions of famous novels, .or any films of a similar nature. He is aiming merely at the exclusion of those sensational pictures that place a glamour oq undesirable things, and so tend to direct; certain types of people into •wrong courses.—Dominion. ~
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HNS19210214.2.49
Bibliographic details
Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 7
Word Count
166FILM CENSORSHIP Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 7
Using This Item
See our copyright guide for information on how you may use this title.
Log in