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e) Acts of Cruelty. — Scenes and subjects showing acts of cruelty and ill-treatment of persons and animals are in general forbidden. It is particularly desired to prevent children from witnessing scenes which may awaken in their immature minds those instincts of cruelty which are latent in most children and which can only be corrected and eliminated by education.
f) Captions. — In Egypt as elsewhere, captions are regarded as an integral part of the films, and are subject to censoring along with them. All titles and sub-titles that lend themselves to a double meaning or which contain dangerous suggestions from the point of view of morality and religion are prohibited.
Any purely artistic censorship of films is still lacking in Egypt. This indeed is the case in most countries, owing to the inherent difficulty of setting up any purely subjective artistic standards. The work of censorship, moreover, can only proceed by stages. It is a recognized fact that everywhere social and moral standards form the basis of the censors' task. At a later stage the spectator himself, as his cinegraphic sense develops, can do the needful, select suitable films and reject those which seem to him unworthy. Artistic censorship is therefore a matter for the future and will apply solely to special exhibitions (schools, organizations, associations, etc.), which are likely to demand purely artistic films, and it will be accomplished — as is already gradually being done — by the selective sense of the spectator himself. The film industry, if it wishes to prosper, will be forced by economic laws to conform itself to public opinion and public feeling. Otherwise it will go under.
Palestine.
On the 1 6th. October 1927 the High Commissioner for Palestine issued an order to regulate the local censorship system.. The basis of the system introduced was that the public as well as the official representatives should be given a voice in censoring.
This office has its headquarters in Jerusalem and by the terms of the ordinance above cited, it is composed of a President who is ex officio the Deputy Commissary of the District and of several members, one of whom must be a woman, appointed by the High Commissioner. For the Office to be able to act, there must be present at least two members, one of whom must be a Government official, besides the President. The Office has power to delegate certain specified persons to view films and give their opinion as to the propriety of exhibiting them.
All persons submitting films to the Censor's office for examination must upon application paj' a fee of 25 Turkish piasters. This fee is likewise fixed for appeals from the Censor's Office to the High Commissioner. Import duties are returned in the case of rejected films.
By way of exception and with the object of favouring the diffusion
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