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in the sight of other races, scenes likely to create or foment class ill-feeling, or representing British Possessions as lawless sinks of iniquity rather than as centres of civilization and progress.
c) Military subjects. — The British Board's revisional functions in this regard are naturally confined to Empire interests, and are concerned with maintaining the prestige of the British uniform and in excising scenes of conflict between soldiers and civilians or reflections on the family relations of responsible British officers likely to discredit the Army.
d) Administration of Justice : For obvious social reasons and so as to avoid any scenes likely to impede the ends of justice, any scenes representing conflicts between the police and populace are subject to revision or excision, as also scenes displaying the police in a false or derogatory light and objectionable prison scenes.
e) Social Questions. — The aims of the British Film Board are highly moral, and in this sphere its action is guided by an endless series of suggestive indications susceptible of being added to as occasion demands.
There are local considerations, such as the need of avoiding all scenes showing the white populations of the Empire in a derogatory light as compared with coloured populations ; this is a point to which, as we have already seen, the Board attaches also political importance.
Then there are reasons of a general domestic character : the observation of all due respect to State Authorities and citizens (soldiers, magistrates, etc.) performing public offices.
Reasons of a moral character : these exclude painful scenes of lunacy, drunkenness, debauchery, intimate biological studies unsuited to general exhibition, suggestive and indecorous dancing, nude scenes, particularly of women and girls, allusion to sexual perversion, painful family scenes, such as marital infidelity and collusive divorces, illicit medical practices, such as abortion, or otherwise unsuited to public showing (childbirth, venereal disease, surgical operations, etc.) and in general all scenes of excessive vulgarity or brutality.
The British Board of Film Censors are particularly severe in their tutelage of all questions inherent to sex.
Questions of Sex are included among questions of social importance and all scenes are taboo if considered as of a crudely immoral character : scenes showing prostitution in an agreeable or frivolous light, scenes of accosting, of procuration, rape, violence, white slave traffic, scenes entering into intimate details of sexual love ; all scenes, in short, likely to foster immorality.
f ) Crime. — In a general way films in which crime plays the predominant part are not passed by the Board, nor those in which crime is displayed in an attractive or alluring light, either by showing the triumph of crime with the success of the criminal, or through the representation of
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