Films of Ex-King Not to be Banned
WELLINGTON, March 20. •'naturally, l consider that the whole iunhappy incident and the surrounding circumstances would be better confined to the limbo of forgotten things, bu-1 news happenings elsewhere which hav« «lr<*idy been reported in the Press cannot reasonably be interfered with, so I have not taken any action in banning this matter from the screen,” declared Mr R. Tanner, Government Film Censor, to-day when commenting or the cablegram <below) from Sydney announcing the banning of films dealing with the Duke of Windsor. “On on® or two occasions when American newsreel commentators hav« been disrespectful and wide of the he had, he said, made eliminations.
A cable says: Picture# of the Duke of Windsor skiing in Austria wer© deleted from newsreels. Colonel Hurley, acting chief film who ordered the ban, has declined f,© make any •tatemen*
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 68, 22 March 1937, Page 7
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