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The same paragraph of the Cinema Law further stipulates that the compulsory local film chronicle may be replaced by other local film productions, following the procedure as fixed by the Minister of the Interior. In a similar manner the compulsory local film chronicle may be substituted for by a foreign film chronicle if the latter has been obtained in exchange for an Estonian film chronicle or other Estonian film productions.
Paragraph 35 of the same law prescribes that the showing of a local film chronicle may be repeated jn the same motion-picture theater as a compulsory chronicle film only with the permission of the Film Inspector. Paragraph 37 stipulates that the showing of advertising slides and films in behalf of business firms and enterprises must not take more than 5 minutes of the time required for the screening of one night's program.
CENSORSHIP
During the fiscal year ended March 31, 1938, 939 films of a total length of 897,323 meters were released for showing by the Estonian Film Inspector. In this total number, 293 films (31.20) of a total length of 318,656 meters (35.56%) were American productions, Germany's share was 221 films (23.53) of a total length of 305,185 meters (34 percent). Other productions which were released for exhibition were Estonian, British, French, Austrian, Russian (U. S. S, R.), Hungarian, Czecho-Slovak, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, and Polish. The total number of screen plays exhibited during the fiscal year ended March 31, 1938, included 47 films which were abridged for release by the Film Inspector.
During the same fiscal period 46 films were rejected by the Estonian Film Inspector for their banal contents, injurious effect, and inferior quality. The rejected films are not included in the 939 which were censored for the screen as previously indicated.
Of the 46 films rejected by the Estonian Film Inspector, 26 films, or 56.5 percent, were American shorts and features 7 films, or 15.2 percent, were German productions; 7 films, or 15.2 percent, were Soviet Russian; 2 films, or 4.3 percent, were French; the remainder being Austrian, Czecho-Slovak, British, and Finnish pictures, one of each (2.2 percent). The 26 American films were rejected for their alleged banal contents, murder scenes, gangsterism, and inferior art value.
Requirements as regards censorship of motion-picture films in force in Estonia are set up in chapter 4 of the Cinema Law of Estonia which was issued by the President-Regent as a decree on April 11, 1938, and published in the "Riigi Teataja" (Official Gazette) No. 39 of April 20, 1938, to supersede the previous law of 1935.
Paragraph 15 cf Chapter 4 of the Cinema Law in force since April 20, 1938, stipulates that a film in its contents and form shall be required to be nationally constructive and to have educational value.
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