FILM PRODUCTIONS.
BRITISH CENSOR’S ULTIMATUM.
Received January 5, 8.55 a.m
LONDON, Jan. 4. According to the Evening News, the Chief Censor has sent the following ultimatum to all film companies, British and foreign, in the United Kingdom :
“It has been regretfully noticed lately 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. No modifications, however drastic can suit such fihns to public exhibition. The board, therefore, notifies the trade that no film will be certified whose theme is without any redeeming characteristic and depends upon intense brutality and unrelieved sordidness.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 29, 5 January 1931, Page 7
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118FILM PRODUCTIONS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 29, 5 January 1931, Page 7
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