TALKING PICTURES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22262, 9 November 1935, Page 10

TALKING PICTURES

) TABK OF THE CENBOR Motion picture censoring in New Zealand is becoming monotonous because of the improved tone of films generally, the Government censor, Mr. W. 1!. Tanner, stated in an interview in Wellington. The real problem, he stated, is the children, although the selection should not be his, but that of parents. All the censor can do is to warn parents that the film is more suitable for adults. Since talking pictures were introduced children would not patronise the theatres to the same, extent if it were not for the numerous cartoons, which have become a feature. Children do not care to watch the actors sitting about or to listen to long dialogues they only partly appreciate. .7 Various women's organisations tako exception to certain films, especially where they deal with social problems, said Mr. Tanner, but stories in the films would not be complete if they did not include happenings common in tho world and readily accessible in print. Sometimes an excellent moral is pointed by a film which is rather too direct for some people, and then the censor has a difficult task in leaving enough contrast while making the story fit for general release. The endeavour ot the censor, with < eye to the public he is catering for, f ■ iff to keep the pictures a wholesome ip. *®'***tion for young and old.