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The Board, as stated above, does in fact issue two kinds of certificate, the U Certificate and the A Certificate. The first relates to films which are suitable to be shown before any kind of audience (Universal Exhibition) and the second those fit for adults only.
The British Board examined all the complaints that reached it during the year under survey, so as to check the correctness of the issue of certificates, and it was noted that all the films concerning which complaint had been made had been granted A Certificates.
In any case, the Board has decided to exercise greater severity in future in the issue of U certificates and to grant these only to films which cannot exercise any deleterious influence on the youthful mind.
It is certainly not easy to define exactly the line of demarcation between the films receiving the two types of certificate, and it is only possible to exercise a general discretion in each instance. It can anyway be affirmed that no British film is classified under the U category if it treats sexual problems, delicate love questions, painful or disgraceful scenes in family life, crime, or incidents and circumstances in which due respect is not shown to social morals, the governing powers, and the authority of the Law, or wherein the themes dealt with are not treated with proper respect and in a manner calculated to obviate all possibility of corrupting the young mind.
A systematic definition of the British censorship system is in course of being studied. The Home Office has this matter in hand. In any case the work done by the Local Authorities and the British Board of Film Censors up to the present time has been most effective, and with the active and spontaneous support of the film industry, the cinema in the United Kingdom has been able, even in the purely dramatic domain, to make considerable progress towards its final goal of culture and education.
THE FILM AS AN AUXILIARY TO AGRICULTURE
HOW AGRICULTURAL CINEMATOGRAPHY IS ORGANIZED
IN GERMANY
It is only natural that the importance of the aims and of the task assigned to the International Institute in the domain of agriculture should claim the attention of so important an agrarian Country as Germany, which is always on the look-out for the latest technical improvements and the best methods of production.
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