Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest line up and at the order to fire each raises his rifle so that the bullets strike above the woman's head. Nurse Cavell, however, falls down in a faint and an officer steps forward and despatches her with a pistol." The pistol used in making the film was, by way of meticulous realism, a German Luger (see photograph...
...Commenting emotionally on the above terse report, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain cried to the House of Commons: "I am speaking as an English gentleman upon what I think is an outrage on humanity. . . . I believe this [film] account of the execution to be fully apocryphal [i. e. fictitious or spurious]. I feel that it is an outrage upon a noble woman's memory to turn to purposes of commercial profit so heroic a story...
...served as Vice-Chairman of the Lord Bryce Commission which, during the War, investigated and exaggerated "German atrocities." Flinging the defunct Commission's hat once more into the ring, General Morgan rehearsed the "judicial murder" of Edith Cavell and seemed to think it could not receive too much film publicity...
...remote Witwaters Rand, South Africa, the local Deputy Commissioner of Police was so stirred by despatches from London that he issued an order banning Dawn, although the film had not yet had its first public showing in England. During the week the London County Council prevented what had been billed as: "Monster First Showing Of Dawn Before 10,000 Representative Citizens At Albert Hall...
...Returning to the nub, it became evident last week that legislation must be enacted to supplant the present grandiloquently named but impotent British Board of Film Censors, chairmanned by famed "Tay Pay" O'Connor, now vacationing in the U. S. (TIME, March 5). The Board possesses no legal jurisdiction, but by commercial agreement its recommendations are obeyed in the numerous theatres of the British Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association...