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September 1974

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Still No Sign of Govt Bill

 

As we go to press there is still no sign of the official government bill to reform and update film censorship being introduced in Parliament. Until the Minister of Internal Affairs makes this move, which should also include suggestions made by the Censor on his recent overseas trip, Jonathan Hunt's private member's bill will stay on the bottom of the order paper, with a great likelihood of it disappearing altogether if it is still there when parliament recesses at the end of the year.

 

An insight into the Government's attitude may be gleaned by a comment the Prime Minister made recently to the conference of the Country Women's Institute, As reported in the Evening Post on 23 July, he said; "We've developed a system of film censorship to protect our chlldren, but those responslble for shaping the mlnds of our chlldren are able to go freely." He said this system made it virtually impossible for parents and children to go and see a film together.

 

A rather different approach was evident at the recent National Party Dominion Conference held in Auckland. As reported in The Dominion on 27 July, the conference opposed any cuts at all to restricted films and decided no films should be banned or classified unless they were "substantially concerned with sex, cruelty or violence in a manner which is excessive or substantially devoid of artistic merit". The remit was carried quite substantially on a hand count, which appeared to surprise some of its supporters. Mr C Costello, Miramar, said the present requirement for the censor to cut films was "interfering with the world of the great artists of the cinema".

 

- reprinted from Sequence 1974.

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