Word: censoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adults Only, but it is nowhere near that exciting. Except for moments of genuine scenic charm it is an exceedingly pedestrian study of why girls get restless at times and will please all those who find this study sufficiently interesting to overcome the noxious results of a censor's unseeing...
...Censor Wilkinson has had his troubles with the March of Time from its inception. Overruling the March of Time's claim that, as journalism in celluloid, it must be as free to handle controversial news as the Press, Watchdog Wilkinson has on various occasions removed from the British March of Time shots of German Nazis persecuting Jews, members of the French People's Front demonstrating against the Fascist Croix...
Last week Censor Wilkinson was shown the March of Time's eighth British edition. What chiefly caught his attention were the 651 feet which traced the course of His Majesty's Government's attempt to keep Italy out of Ethiopia and uphold the League of Nations as an instrument for international peace. Censor Wilkinson did not object to a shot of the British Home Fleet entering the Mediterranean, but he did object to shots of British troopships going to the same place and to the Voice of Time's announcement: "British troops follow the fleet...
...Times listed the Censor's changes, passed solemn judgment: "Most impartial critics will agree the Censor has improved the film...
...Federal Food & Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission, heckled by Consumers' Research, rebuffed by self-respecting magazines and newspapers when the extravagant claims of occasional products verged on quackery, members of the Proprietary Association two years ago organ-ized an "advisory committee on advertising" to censor the commercial announcements of all its members. Hired as censor-in-chief was Edward H. Gardner, onetime professor of Advertising & Marketing at University of Wisconsin, more recently a pundit for J. Walter Thompson Co. During the year, Censor Gardner reported, drug manufacturers submitted $70,000,000 worth of advertising copy for approval...