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CINEMA QUARTERLY
Volume 3; No. 1
AUTUMN
1934
THREAT TO NON-FLAM. While the ordinary public performance of films printed on standard inflammable stock is strictly controlled by regulations framed to secure public safety but also used to enforce an undefined but far reaching measure of censorship, the exhibition of non-inflammable film, as used with all sub-standard projectors, has so far remained free from official interference. There are indications, however, that this freedom may be short-lived. The Home Office is said to be considering the introduction of new regulations which would bring non-flam film virtually under the same restrictions as apply to standard stock.
Such a move would have a disastrous effect on the development of the use of the film in education, social welfare, the public services, and in every sphere where it can serve the interests of the community. The value of the film as a means of education and instruction is being increasingly recognized, and numerous schools and educational organizations throughout the country have already installed apparatus which may now become unusable.
The proposed regulations, it is understood, are intended to lessen the physical danger to public safety, apart from the risk of fire, which it is feared may be present at uncontrolled exhibitions. It would be difficult, however, to trace any case of accident or disturbance causing injury to any member of the public as a result of using safety film. It would appear, therefore, that if the regulations are to be as stringent as has been hinted, the intention is either censorial or is to satisfy interests opposed to the spread of non-theatrical exhibitions and the increase of advertising shows organized by large commercial firms.
To endanger the unrestricted development of the sub-standard film, particularly in the field of education, in order to eliminate a particular type of performance unwelcome to certain other vested interests, would be an act of supreme folly. Until the official text of the proposed regulations is made public there is little that can be done to organize opposition, but every one concerned with the use of safety film should be primed in readiness to take joint action in appealing against the introduction of any measures which would place unnecessary restrictions on the exhibition of films used for
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