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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondents who questioned him about the British Board of Film Censors of which he has been chairman for 11 years (see COMMONWEALTH) he said: "First of all we tolerate no propaganda. . . . Secondly, we recently ruled against the Edith Cavell picture Dawn because it was too warlike. I am told it cost ?35,000. It's not the war spirit that we want to foster but the spirit of peace. Thirdly, there is our attitude toward religious films. I may say that we would not have passed The King of Kings. The producer, probably surmising as much, did not submit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Fleet Street the Empire was piquantly all of a twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal system of film censorship. Therefore, last week, the interplay of moral suasion was untrammeled and magnificently British. Some felt, and some did not, that to project the story of Nurse Cavell once more upon the world would be to revive War mentality at its worst and embitter Anglo-German relations. Loud, therefore, were twitterers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Twittering at Dawn | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Showdown," now on view at the Metropolitan, is obviously modelled on the first Bancroft-Brent opus. Unfortunately it doesn't quite come off: it is an entertaining film and in places a very good film, but it suffers by comparison. Bancroft looks extremely roguish and in spite of the fact that he is cast as a Diamond in the Rough he manages to leave the impression of good clean villainy. Miss Brent, playing a girl reeking with refinement for the first part of the picture, redeems herself by going slightly but uncontrollably native in the latter half. Which brings...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

...Cabinet approved and President Doumergue signed, last week, a decree restricting the showing of foreign films in France. This measure creates a board empowered to reject any foreign film if the country of export is not exhibiting a generous quota of French films. Last year 368 U. S. films were shown in France, but only about 8 French releases flickered in the U. S. The decree will become operative on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Political Week | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Blair & Co. (Bankers) with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum organization (vaudeville and cinema houses) control the Pathe Exchange; which controls the Pathe News Reel, Cecil B. DeMille Pictures, Producers Distributing Corp., Metropolitan Pictures (Christie features), Producers International Corp. To this list of subsidiaries was added last week the Film Booking Office (FBO), largest non-theatre-owning producers & distributors of cinemas (60 annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Mergers: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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