Newsreel on Nazi Germany Is Shown: Curb Over-ruled Chicago, Jan. 20.
With the Chicago Board of Censors' ban on the March of Time newsreel, "Inside Nazi Germany in 1938," overruled by the local Police Commissioner, the newsreel made its debut before packed houses at Embassy Theatre to-day. Unusual scenes greeted the film. Between rounds of applause members of the audience shouted for the various dictators.
While the majority of the audience loudly applauded the graphic shots, the fourth, fifth and sixth rows were Occupied "respectively by groups shouting "Hell Stalin," "Hell Hitler" and New Dealers jokingly yelling "Hell Roosevelt.
On January 18, Time Incorporated announced that the Chicago Board of Censors had banned the newsreel from Chicago on grounds that it was unfriendly to Germany and would likely cause resentment in a nation on friendly terms with the United States.
Time- Incorporated, however, appealed the ban on the basis that it was a "direct attack on the principles of free press."
The Police Commissioner overruled the censors and issued a permit to show the newsreel in Chicago.—United Press.
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