Word: filming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British film classifications: U for universal exhibition, A for adults, H for horrific (not for children...
...Zealand cinemakers produced one film feature in 1938, showed it in one theatre, junked...
Biggest 25? worth of facts & figures the cinema industry could buy last week was a 377-page review of foreign film markets during 1938, issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Most comforting figures: despite censorship bans and trade barriers in authoritarian countries, Hollywood lost only 6% of its market abroad, still ruled the 1938 roost by supplying 65% of all the films shown in the world's cinemas. Most disturbing fact: in Esthonia, esthetic censors banned several Hollywood films for mere banality...
...Germany, film imports must receive Propaganda Ministry certificates of nonobjection (Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) before they go to the censors to be scanned for scenes "racially offensive," "reflecting against German prestige...
Denver has a city ordinance banning movies that show lynchings or tend to incite race hatred. When Manager Robert Allen of South Denver's Jewell Theatre announced the 24-year-old film classic The Birth of a Nation as last week's attraction, he was warned that the ordinance would be invoked against him. He went ahead anyhow, at week's end had been formally arrested 16 times, once at each afternoon and evening showing. Challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance in a police-court show-down this week, Manager Allen will have on his side...