ULTIMATUM TO FILM COMPANIES
BRUTAL AND SORDID SCENES
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
LONDON, 3rd January,
Mr Shortt, chief censor, has sent the following ultimatum to all film companies, British and foreign, in the United Kingdom, says the “Evening News” : “It has been regretfully noticed lately that films produced in which the development of the theme necessitated a continuous succession of grossly brutal and sordid scenes, are steadily increasing with, in tlie case of sound films, sounds accentuating the situation and nauseating to the listener. No modifications, however drastic, can suit such films to public exhibition. The hoard, therefore, notifies the trade that no film will be certified whose theme without any redeeming characteristic depends upon intense, brutal, unrelieved sordiness of the kind depicted.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 January 1931, Page 5
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124ULTIMATUM TO FILM COMPANIES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 January 1931, Page 5
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