Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, How to control the cinema industry as effectively as the press has long been a problem for German Nazis. First system tried, whereby the industry got suggestions from the Government, submitted to a rigorous censorship, proved unsuccessful. Last winter, two of Germany's major producing companies, Tobis and Bavarian Films, were quietly acquired by Government-subsidized syndicates. Last week, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who fortnight ago warned producers that if they did not pay better heed to suggestions, means would be found to make them do so, made the German film industry virtually a Government monopoly. Into control...
...were called on the carpet, forced to promise they will release not a single inch of film disapproved of by the Duke and the Archbishop, who were appointed the official censors. Since they cannot be expected to rush to a projection room directly from the Coronation, and do their censorship at once, Gaumont British was on the point of abandoning last week its plans to have famed British Flyers Jim Mollison and Beryl Markham take off in separate planes with duplicate Coronation films in an effort to get these to the U. S. quickly...
...last week the issue had developed into a Parliamentary campaign. Among those urging the Government to impose some sort of censorship were a large number of M.P.'s who feel that the Government, under the excuse of throttling ghoulishness, can control "indiscreet"' news about the Royal Family and other public figures...
...firmly put the lid on this show and the Living Newspaper next turned its attention to Triple-A Plowed Under. This treatment of the Roosevelt Administration's farm program, putting the New Deal in a favorable light and its opponents in a very unfavorable one, required no Government censorship. It is safe to say that Power, one side of the story of the Tennessee Valley Authority, will require none either. Government Playwright Arent (Triple-A Plowed Under), the onetime dramatic critic who marshaled into dramatic form the facts Mr. Watson's researchers found for him, has stacked...
...Shipman Payson, the tall, rusty-haired Manhattan lawyer whom Jock Whitney's sister Joan married. His ambition to be a publisher appears to have been fired by the thought that the commentators of radio probably had facts & opinions to give the world which radio's timorous self-censorship bottles up before the microphone...