POPULARITY OF PICTURES
A CENSOR’S COMMENTS. Every week in the British Isles, says the London "Times,” 19,500,000 people go to the cinema, at an average cost to themselves of Bid. Lord Tyrrell, who as head of the Board of Censors, sees to it that morals shall not suffer from this addiction to the cinema, recently addressed the Cinematograph Exhibitors’ Association at Eastbourne. He saw in present tendencies on the screen no grave immediate danger to the screen’s vast public; but he issued one or two warnings. A Vogue for the gruesome has apparently passed, regreted by few; but Lord Tyrrell remarked on the undesirability of too great a degree of realism in (for instance) hospital scenes, and on the lying in wait of political films. “Although we have had no film dealing with current burning political questipns,” he said, “the thin end of the wedge has been inserted.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3804, 4 September 1936, Page 9
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148POPULARITY OF PICTURES Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3804, 4 September 1936, Page 9
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