MOVING PICTURES.
The' request made by the C.E.M.SI. t-oiifemice at Masterton for a more rigid censorship of moving films will meet \yith the endorsement of a wide section of the community. Some of the films shown in picture theatres to-day are an insult to the intellM genre of average individuals. Others are calculated to have a most injurious effect upon the morals' of the rising generation. The managers of picture liouses are largely at the mercy of the larger concerns which control the film business. The censor of iilms in New Zealand is a very estimable -gentleman. But he has not, m the opinion of a groat number of people, exercised sufficient discrimination in his censorship. If only rubbish is submitted to him, then lie should censor the whole of it. So far as posters and advertisements are concerned, these have mot, yet called for special censorship, though some of the former are slightly overdone.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 6 February 1918, Page 4
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