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represented does not appear as a mask, but participating in the festivity in a priestly attitude, with the cross on his breast.
Also the representation of the Pope in a film enjoys the protection of German censorship. Thus the Higher Office has prohibited the production, otherwise unobjectionable, of the Pope,, as an advertisement of a film equally unobjectionable which represented the marvels of the Vatican, for the reason that a Catholic will not tolerate the effigy of the living Pope to be utilised as an advertisement or for it to be placed on an advertisement stand near the picture of a dancer or the notice of a review.
As disgusting and brutalising, are considered the films whose projection can revive dormant primitive instincts in such a measure that moral resistance disappears and a desire to do similar actions is set up. This does not necessarily occur when a brutal objective action is represented ; the film must rather show relevant subjective influences to be condemned. The representation of a bull fight, cannot be prohibited because the events represented are objectively brutal and for the German spectator are considered as torture for men and beasts. They do not operate in a subjectively brutal way, but excite on the contrary horror and have a deterrent effect. The place and time of the action represented, are factors to be considered, in judging of the brutality, as well as the ever present subjective influence produced by the brutal action that can de strengthened by the details of the representation of brutal objective actions, or it can be eliminated by means of equivalent values, ethically or otherwise.
Sensations are not considered repulsive when reproducing sporting or artistic actions that are intended only to cause the excitement or tickling of nerves. In the grotesque American film an influence, even subjectively irritating, may be excluded on account of the absolute unlikelihood and preposterousness of the action, for reasons of abnormal conditions of place and things which are beyond imitation. If however the grotesque performance refers to the reproduction of likely circumstances which can be imitated, and by which the grotesque action is brought back into the field of possibility and imitation, then such action will dull the better
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