Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-18 | Page 9 | To Tighten Censorship on Movies

AKERS To TIGHTEN CE ON MOVIES Pa Feb Feu IS 18 end to the s state tt taws laws gov gov- gov J ing S g the supervision o of moving 1 v ng pic pie rb ra 10 films so that tote lite t e Pennsylvania jard and ard of censors may have greater over films shipped into this to to from other parts of the co count coun- coun un t the power to confiscate objection objection- ble ible films and to be bo enabled to bar 11 seals sea except that of the tho common- common from films shown within the fate ate late are among the recommendations ado In the report of the censors sub sub- today to Governor Brum- Brum augh Sin In In six months the board made 1146 1146 1146 11 46 inspections collected in ees and in fines condemned 69 films and eliminated ted parts parts of The The report states that three-fourths three C f f the films are made in California five per cent of the films hown in this state are aro melodrama nd 20 per cent of the remainder com- com dy much of which the report classes s coarse Criticism Is made of many f f the advertisements shown by the lovio ovio theatres and the report declares declares declares de de- clares that the board cannot believe that the motion picture theatre is a medium for teaching the youth of of I Pennsylvania moral lessons through melodrama melodrama which it could much better better bet bet- I ter ter get through the old channels in inthe the church or school nor will it be turned from its way by appeals for freedom to lay bare or advertise the sordid relationships of life In the name of or literature or the dramatic art art