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BANNED “TALKIE” LOSS LONDON, Oct. 21. “The Monetary loss over the Australian banning of the British talkie film, “Blackmail,” is roughly £lO,000,” said Mr. Arthur Dent, a director of British Internalioa! Pictures. “But far more important is the damage to the prestige of the British film industry, particularly as ‘.Blackmail’ is generally regarded as having created a standard from which Americans may learn much.” He said that he could not understand the censors. The Australian censors, in their last annual report, indicated an expectation of a higher moral tone in British than in American films. “1 cannot see how'in a competitive world they can cherish such ideas,” he said. “In any ease, ‘Blackmail’ does not offend in any respect, while it is far more respectable than many American films which are freely licensed throughout .the world. “I have appealed to the Board of Overseas Trade to assist us,”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17096, 31 October 1929, Page 14
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