Show HEAD D FAVORS RAL RALf CENSOR lIt f i mR FILMS 4 7 I i Jerst erst Writes to s Asking for or Their Their f io eO D Dl I BE ECONOMY I Would Be Is IsH Is- Is fc H He Says and Pub Pub- Would auld Benefit t- t rs president and geng genger genger gen- gen g ger ger o of P Path Pathe i the believing thor- thor e-deral e censorship of ot mo- mo furnishes the only a avail vail against legalized state Censorship C and convinced rr faction action Uon is necessary in order n he Hughes bill passed has every exhibitor on the ding list urging individual h of the business Berst gives some strong II Jn favor of the bill The will soon be brought before at Wash- Wash bill providing for off 01 motion pictures l ing ia a careful study of this that it is to the best all exhibitors and man- man to have it passed In rover r with various prominent have eve found that they bein beIn bein be- be in in this matter and nd feel teel c should be rethe rethe re- re the exhibitors among his hiso o actively aid the bill ter ter Pictures res Si t t. place federal censorship picture At the present presenta f a board hoard of review jS wn n as a the national board boards s passing pasing upon pictures release This enables I 4 plc- plc IreI if parts of ot his plc- plc tied to to to make retakes m titles and generally rEo reso re re- so o that its artistic value j t l often otten improved by the theo theo o 0 o that the story remains j i cresting However the theof t 1 of review has no power is decisions and the revised by hy it has to run pf of various state and city boards with legal powers mild End nd prejudiced opi opinions lo s wail on such boards and snit you arp are only too fa- fa I i Cuts both of scenes and titles 1 are demanded The local exchange handling pictures loca locally ly censored having no facilities and no time for expert editing release them with the offending parts eliminated thus leaving leaving leaving leav leav- ing gaps in the stories which greatly lessen their artistic value Your audiences audiences audi audi- do not understand this The They I merely complain that that the pictures picture are I inferior and that pictures are arc not so II good as they used to be Would Save Money Secondly federal censorship would be a good thing from the standpoint of ot economy Boards of censors are now springing up all over the time country all alt demanding their toll and you ou as well as we must pay Most of these boards demand a fee for reel in the time possession possession pos pus session of the film fUm exchange whether recently released or or several months old oldIn In this last case it means an ex expense expense expense ex- ex pense of thousands o of dollars to the distributor For instance if the time bill providing for tor state censorship In New NewYork NewYork York had not been vetoed by the governor governor governor gov gov- censorship fees for tor this one company alone on films already re released released released re- re leased and in the possession of our various arious New York state exchanges would have amounted to If It that bill had not been vetoed we would have had to raise the price on all fu future future future fu- fu ture rentals In order not to conduct our business at a loss If It we in the time industry do not at once take action there will probably be another bill presented in New York state at the next session of the legislature legislature legis legis- lature and similar bills in many other other- states The tax on the film exchanges will be tremendous tremendous-so so great In fact that several of them will have to go out of business and with them the ex exhibitors exhibitors exhibitors ex- ex who are art not able to pay higher rentals It is true that the establishment of ofa ofa ofa a federal board hoard will not at once eliminate eliminate elim elim- all existing local hoards boards but It I certainly will tend to do so in time I It will be quite feasible to obtain from i the tho higher courts decisions reversing I the rulings o of the local board objecting to parts of films already approved by bythe bythe bythe I the federal board and precipitating their disappearance Again the fact tact that there exists such a federal board will be the time most powerful argument possible against the establishment of additional local boards in states and cities Ve We urge you ou for Cor our mutual interests in interests in- in to write your congressman at once along the till lines of the letter asking his aid in having the I Hughes bill passed |