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Weeding Them Out
REJECTION OF PICTURE FILMS. London, February 16. During 1913 the British Board of Film Censors, dealing with the world's output, examined 7,628,331 ft of pictures and 7186 subjects, of which 6861 were passed for universal exhibition. The reasons for rejection of the others included cruelty to animals, indecorous dancing, impropriety in conduct and dress, executions, operations, foreign customs abhorrent to British ideas, painful insanity scenes, morbid death scenes, and incentives to crime.
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Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5535, 17 February 1914, Page 3
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75Weeding Them Out Waikato Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 5535, 17 February 1914, Page 3
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