UNCENSORED FILMS
PROSECUTION OF SOCIETY TEST CASE IN WELLINGTON [by telf.gh a?h—press association] "WELLINGTONS, Friday Ir. a reserved judgment to-day, Mr. E. Page, S.M., convicted the Wellington Film Society, for exhibiting cinematograph films that had not been approved by the censor, irf a place to which a charge was made in respect of persons admitted. On a charge relating to the film ''The Road to Life. 7 ' the society was convicted and ordered to pay costs amounting to £1 lis. A charge concerning The Animal Kingdom," which was shown before the incorporation of the society, was withdrawn. Mr. Page agreed that it was essentially a test case, and Mr. W. E. Leicester, who appeared for the defendant society, stated that an endeavour would be mado to have a regulation made which would enable films not ordinarily passed by tho censor to be passed for exhibition to a particular number of people desiring to see them. He emphasised the fact that, the object of the society was not to show tincensored films, and that the showing of two such films was merely coincidental with the operations of the society.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 12
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188UNCENSORED FILMS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 12
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