Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-10 | Page 4 | Causing Needless Cruelty in Films Draws Criticism

Causing Needless Cruelty J I In n Fil Films ms D Draws raws C r j 3 Within the ear or two follow 3 Ing the popularity of some genuinely instructive pictures showing anImal in their natural haunts there has bu been produced a large Jorge number ot of other films staging battles between wild animals These animals are 0 o obviously captive so plainly anxious to escape the thc barred confines of t their ir imitation jungle and the of cr creatures matched ar are sometimes so dissimilar in habitat and natural rl ri valry as to disgust rather than amuse the llie spectator ta Not only is there an increasing abuse of captive wild creatures b but t also of f domestic animals The sad j part of it all Is is' that this misuse of mans man's power is considered amusing i by many in each elch audience Others Others' find their pleasure in the theater e. e tJ strayed by the memory of mans man cruelty This is intended merely to touch a 1 subject that could be enlarged uon at length AU All producers knoW 7 we refer and many theater patrons patron It is not intended to criticize actual pictures of actual hunts although the Marvin Johnsons made far better plc- plc tures without the necessity for ter It Js is however very definitely intended to protest against staged battles battle by helpless creatures creatures' d lr Ing only escape and especially against the abuse of domestic ant ani- mats Many parents object t 10 having theIr children see such scenes which Jug aug 1 gent gest that cruelty is the accepted stand ard of the world It is time for Mr Hays again to make this apparent to Rockford Register public J