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for everyone, theorists and craftsmen alike, to face the matter frankly and give timely consideration to the possibilities and dangers of the use of colour? Only thus will it be possible to avoid the chaos and insensibilities which followed the commercial exploitation of sound.
CENSORSHIP AGITATION. A deputation led by the Archbishop of Canterbury and representative of the various uplift organizations throughout the country recently waited on the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, to urge the setting up of a Government Inquiry into the working of film censorship in Great Britain, with power to recommend constructive reform and improvement of the present conditions.
A similar deputation headed by Bernard Shaw and representative of the radical intellectuals of the community might reasonably have presented the same request. Both bodies of opinion agree that the existing censorship is a farce. It is too lax. It is too rigid. It winks at indecency. It stifles art. It pleases nobody.
Do we require a stricter censorship or a more intelligent one? Or none? In reply to the present agitation the Home Secretary is officially reported as indicating "the difficulty of reaching general agreement on a matter largely of taste." Even the righteous and omniscient Mr. MacDonald declared that "Inquiries, particularly, perhaps, where any question of morals is involved, did not always yield all the results expected of them." He ought to know. The suppression of political propaganda, of course, is much simpler than dealing with matters of morals. There are methods. . . .
But Wardour Street may rest in peace.
Norman Wilson.
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