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of educational films, the High Commissioner has power to grant exemption from the tax indicated for films certified as of public utility, or those produced for the promotion of social or educational aims.
The Jerusalem Office actually consists of the Deputy Commissioner of the District, acting as President, a female Welfare Inspector, a representative of the Police, a representative of the Education Department, a representative of the Chamber of Commerce, two other members appointed by the High Commissioner, one of whom must be a Moslem, and a secretary chosen from among the members of the Office of the Deputy Commissioner of the District.
How the Office functions. — Not only films but also advertisements thereof are submitted to the Censor's Office. No film may be exhibited and no poster or advertisement may be posted or distributed unless it has previously been granted a permit by the Censor's Office or by the person whom the office, as above stated, is authorized in certain circumstances to delegate for the purpose.
The following procedure is followed :
Applicants must submit the scenario of the films to the Office, together with details of the various scenes represented, photographs and publicity matter. All this is examined by the Committee, which usually meets once a fortnight. Whenever this preliminary examination gives rise to any doubts as to the desirability of exhibiting the film, the film itself must be viewed.
Licenses for exhibition are granted by means of certificates, a photograph of which accompanies the film and must be projected together with it on the screen, so as to enable the police authorities to make sure that the film has been submitted for examination.
The whole or a part only of the films maybe censored, if the modification required is of such kind as not substantially to damage the film. In this case, the censored part is retained at the Office during the whole of the time the film is being shown in Palestine and is returned to the owner when the film is about to leave the country.
Penalties. — Apart from the question of responsibility, the penal laws in force in the territory provide that any person who presents an immoral public spectacle, or a spectacle liable in any way to disturb the public peace, or who publishes or causes to be distributed or posted any poster or advertisement relating thereto, or who exhibits publicly a prohibited film or any censored part thereof, is liable to a fine of 50 pounds sterling and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month
Any member of the Office, or higher police official, or district officer, or official of the Education Department, is entitled to be present in public premises at any exhibition or exhibitions which he considers it desirable to examine or check, and to seize any offending film or any part of a film and to order the arrest of the perons responsible for it.
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