Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precisely as extralegal and august as national cinema censorship in the U. S. is Britain's Board of Film Censors, a body whose president is paid $10,000 a year by the British film industry. Last month the Board's president, red-faced, intolerant Rt. Hon. Edward Shortt died. Last week the British cinema industry picked as president of the Board of Film Censors one of the most distinguished and worldly men in the realm, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, holder of Britain's No. 1 diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from...
...clue to British censorship is that it tries to keep people from thinking about what might upset them. About things normally censorable it is far more tolerant than Will H. Hays. The British Board of Film Censors objects to scenes showing mental disorders, the preliminaries to childbirth, drunken women, cruelty to animals, miscegenation, police brutality, lovable criminals, the Royal Family and the U. S. expression "nerts." Furthermore the Board always tries to do what it thinks the British Foreign and Home Offices would want it to do. Thus, it prevents British citizens from seeing anything that might make them dislike...
When, three months ago, dynamic little Darryl Francis Zanuck and his partner, Joseph M. Schenck, merged their flourishing Twentieth Century Pictures with huge, debt-laden Fox Film, Hollywood had its doubts as to what the result would be. Would Zanuck, struggling to prop up the sagging bulk, suffocate beneath it? Or would he bring it back to life? Last week, with one picture (Metropolitan) released (TIME, Oct. 28), Producer Zanuck showed three more products of his peculiar art. Hollywood scanned them for answers to its questions. The pictures...
...history of the French film movement in America goes back to the summer of 1931, when Mrs. Rand happened to attend a production of "La Grande Mare" at a Paris theatre. Immediately struck by the value which films would have in helping Americans to an understanding of French, she tried as soon as she returned to Cambridge to interest other people in the idea, including among others John A. Haeseler '23, former Director of the University Film Service...
...Crainquebille," a French film based on Anatole France's play of the same name, and "Versaillers," a documentaire, will be shown tomorrow and Friday in the Geographical Institute...