PICTURE POSTERS
CENSORSHIP NEEDED
Those who are responsible for the picture that advertise the “movies’ ’on hoardings should not be surprised at the action taken by the Auckland City Council in asking the Government to establish a national censorship and in setting up a local one, with the Town Clerk as censor. The objectionable nature. of some posters hag. been discussed from time to time during the past few years, but we are not sure that the protests made have brought about much of an improvement. Offensive posters are in the minority, but there are enough of them to justify the imposition of some sort of control. It is an anomaly that whereas moving pictures themselves, which one sees only if one wishes to, are censored, there is no supervision of publicity placarded postil’s advertising these pictures. Censorship of posters will not always be easy, for it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between mere vulgarity and what is waive, but, if films can be censored, so can advertisements. Tile best remedy is to submit, all posters to the national censor of films aixl hisi advisers.—i Star, Auckland.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 July 1925, Page 7
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187PICTURE POSTERS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 July 1925, Page 7
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