DECENCY IN FILMS.
POPE’S APPEAL FOR WORLD CENSORSHIP. MOVE WELCOMED BY BRITISH INDUSTRY. DISCUSSION WITH CATHOLIC LEADERS (Received Friday, 8.15 p.m.) i LONDON, July 3. ly Mail’s** films critic behe Pope’s plea in his latest or the establishment of a world-wide film censorship by Catholic bishops brings nearer the general formation of a league of decency on the lines existing in the United States. Conversations between Catholic leaders and the film' Lntfiifttry in Britain have already resulted in the expectation of a classification of films according to moral standards. The British industry generally welcomes the church’s interest and does not show the alarm, which the creation of the league created in Hollywood. APPEAL TO PARENTS. DEFENCE OF FAMILY LIFE. (Received Friday, 8.15 pjn.) ROME, July 3. The Pope urged that, in addition to bishops organising a censorship, the clergy should secure from parents and others a promise not to witness bad films, which, it is declared, not only occasion sin, destroying the pure love of family life, but create international class prejudices.
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Wairarapa Age, 4 July 1936, Page 5
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