International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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on the ground of a political, social, religious or ethical tendency or any general view of life, as such. The words « as such » indicate that a special judgment is only justified by the fundamental conception of a film, in so far as that conception would be the sole ground of the prohibition and none other of the usual grounds can be established. The Higher Control Office however, consideres as equivalent to an endangering of public safety the case in which the special view or tendency is developed along with incorrect motives, exaggerations and misrepresentations which go beyond what is admissible. As dangerous to health is considered the representation of surgical operations, and the treating of the body with surgical instruments, such as probes, catheters and the like, because the representation of such operations in public, implies an excessive tension on the nervous system of the spectator. The physical or sanitary state of the individual is not considered, but exclusively that of the normal spectator. From the point of view of risks to the health, the cinematographic representation of hypnotism is also prohibited, inasmuch as the representation is an infringement an of police regulations in Germany which forbids any public spiritistic activity. In issuing a censorship's decision for the protection of certain professional categories, a distinction is made as to whether the reference is to an individual or to some occurence affecting the whole profession. The administration of justice and the police, enjoy a particular protection, under German cinematograph censorship. In the description of judicial procedure there is a certain permissible exaggeration and distortion of facts and of the situation, but the film representation should not go beyond this to the point of giving the lay spectator the impression that the tribunals give irresponsible, superficial or even partial judgments, in a word that caprice takes the place of justice. Any bringing into disrepute of the police is also a ground for prohibition as likely to endanger public safety. It is sufficient reason for prohibition that the police should be shown to act in a preposterous and inefficient way in prosecuting the cri -38