MOVING, FILMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 5

MOVING, FILMS

Criminals & drunkards DEPICTED AS HEROES f , ft,. •, MELBOURNE,. Oct. 12. Tim Rev. .T. H. Cain told the Chief Secretary, Mr Macfarlane, to-day that •a -Sydney social worker had witnessed 250 films, in which there, were 97 murders,, ,-79 cases. of unpleasant family occurrences, 22 and 45 •suicides,; ,-Of. the heroes and heroines, 176 were thieves, 25 were women of ill repute,- and 45 were drunkards. ■ Mr, Cain led a deputation from the Council of Churches which asked Mr Maefarkne that the clause -in the Theatres Act providing that certain filing; should not be witnessed by children. agpd between 6 and 16 years, be retained. Mr .Macfarlane said that the operation of the, clause had been found un-aatikfactoi-y,. uuwfieldly, and in effective. Many subterfuges bad been resorted to by children and parents to evade it, anil many, parents objected to the State dictating to them the type of.-entertainment for their children. .Instes# ofteinditional eonsorship of filips, the Cabinet aimed at permitting only the exhibition of films which could be seen by-all. He would refer the request of the deputation to the Cabinet. * . ■