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feelings and excite the brutal instincts and becomes liable to act also subjectively on the brutal sense. This applies for example, to scenes of savage lights and of struggles.
A film is demoralising if the representation injures the moral feelings and thoughts of the spectator, viz., if it is offensive to the moral sense or grossly injurious to habits and to decency. The representation of the nude acts in a demoralising manner only when it is shown in lewd form, exciting the senses, such as the reproduction of the Bauchtanz or naked dances. The effect is also demoralising, according to jurisprudence of the numerous films of criminals and detectives in which the representation of the crime is shown as its own and onlv object, or in which the action of the criminal is glorified, and the police shown as stupid and clumsy. On the other hand, the Higher Office has permitted any localityto be used as surroundings for the dramatic plot of a him, even when the representation is drawn from the life of prostitutes and criminals, provided always that there is no infringement of any of the prohibitions above mentioned. Thus for instance, the life of the prostitute must not be represented as pleasurable and as a life which can be at any time abandoned, unless at the same timeit is shown as reprehensible and it is made quite clear that the return of the prostitute to the normal social life is full of difficulties and disappointments.
Special protection, falling under the class of prohibition of demoralising films, is accorded to the subject of marriage.
The Higher Oxfi:e recognises that marriage and adultery, cannot be excluded as subjects of the dramatic plot of a film, consequently there are no objections to the farcical representation of the rapid alteration of matrimony, adultery, dissensions, separations and reconciliations. It is required however, that for these representations of matrimonv and for the development of conjugal problems, the conflicts should be represented in a serious form and have a psvcholocical basis. In particular, matrimonial deceptions must be based on grave motives of a spiritual order and must not be based exclusivelv on levity and frivolity, which might be interpreted as a low valuation of matrimony.
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