Untoward propaganda calculated to incite breaches of the peace locally and films which will lower the moral prestige of women are not tolerated, while scenes of cruelty or the display of human agony and those pictures objectionable prison scenes or the display of the police in a false or derogatory light are never allowed to be passed for general exhibition.
Such is the work of the Shanghai film censor, whose task, it will be] f seen, is no easy one. All credit to them, however, for the, way in which they have managed to cater for the city's cosmopolitan community in these troublous times, when the]; susceptibilities of each nation are more acute than ever before.
Duties of the Board The Board of Film Censors appointed by the Council on October 1, 1927, unanimously decided that the Police Censors would preview the films. and that the Board would act as a body to which parties interested could appeal in any case decision of the Police not considered acceptable. Thus in any case where the film owner or agent considers that he has a grievance against the decision of the Police Censors, he has the privilege of appealing to the Board, which does not view the films but only acts a deciding factor should there be æ dispute about any film not passed by the regular Police Censors.
In cases where there is any dispute as to a film's suitability for being screened in Shanghai, the full Board is requested to be present at the screening. After the examination of the film, the members of the Board assemble and compare notes. A vote
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