FACTS FROM FILMDOM.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1381, 12 October 1916, Page 35

FACTS FROM FILMDOM.

“YOU NEVER KNOW.”

“It is not necessary, 1 suppose,” said a Wellington “Times” reporter to Mr. Joliffe (film censor), “for you to examine all the films —‘scenics’ and war pictures, for example?” “Well,” was the reply, “we are informed that certain war pictures are got up by the Pro-German Americans for the purpose of belittling our Allies; and, therefore, it is just as necessary to examine the war films as the others; excepting the official pictures, of course. And, as for the ‘scenics,’ it is necessary to go through them also, because you never know. You never know.” Mr. Joliffe stated that he had been met by the film proprietors and importers with uniform consideration and courtesy. They had all taken kindly to the censoring of the films, although it had cost them money; and they were working with him in a friendly way both in Auckland and

Wellington. All the films, he said, are imported through these two ports. There are two important firms in Auckland, and all the rest are in ‘Wellington.