PICTURE FILMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144328, 17 February 1914, Page 3

PICTURE FILMS.

WORK OF THE CENSOR. BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. TIMES —SYDNEY SDN SPECIAL CABLES. LONDON, Feb. 16. During 1913 the British Board of Film Censure, dealing with the world’s sutput, examined 7,628,931 feet of Elms, comprising 7486 subjects. Of ’ these, 6861 were passed for universal exhibition. The reasons for rejection* included cruelty to animals, indecorous dancing, impropriety of conduct and dress, executions,' operations, materialfeation of Christ and the Almighty, and . foreign customs abhorrent to British ideas, painful insanity scenes, morbid death scenes, and incentives to crime.