“BIRTH OF A NATION”
BANNED FILM SCREENED. SENSATION IN PARIS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, October 15. Die “Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent says that there haa been a sensation in the French film world. Despite the Government's refusal to allow the exhibition, the Griffiths’ “Birth of a Nation” film has beenshown in Paris For two days the film attracted record houses to the leading boulevard cinema house. On the third day a dozen gendarmes lined up at the doors and refused to allow the public to enter on the ground that the scenes depicting the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern States against negroes were offensive to ibe coloured population of France. Die police offer a license for the film. if all the scenes of the Ku Klux Klan are eliminated. The owners of the film refuse and threaten action against the Government in order to recover 2.000,000 francs.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11652, 17 October 1923, Page 7
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