PICTURE FILMS
A DRASTIC RESTRICTION. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Minister of Internal Affairs lias notified cinema importers and agencies that no film or portion thereof in which thieving, murder, robbery, or suicide is made a feature will be passed for circulation in New .Zealand. This will take effect from May next. The film businesses here regard this as a serioous blow, and they point out that it will prevent the dramatisation of many great novels. Thousands of books dealing with such subjects will be sold, while pictures in which punishment for crime is meted nut are to be banned. One exhibitor sanid that if the restriction was in the interests of the children they didn’t want them, ami would sooner see a law against any children under ifi attending.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14582, 3 February 1921, Page 5
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131PICTURE FILMS Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14582, 3 February 1921, Page 5
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