CINEMA FILMS
EVIDENCE IN COURT
LONDON, May 29
The Home Office and Scotland Yard are interested in a Derbyshire case whei'e a cinema film, which a policeman took, was shown in Court a s evidence in a hefting case.
Scotland Yard officials state that a police cinema department has not been esthlished ycifc, a,ithough films' ,hove "been used lor years in cases in Europe and A merica.
The newspapers say they believe lawyers would oppose the contention that the camera cannot lie, and mention the possibility of an innocent passer-by walking on to the scene of a crime.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1935, Page 6
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