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The same penalties may be extended not only to the staff of the cinemas, but also to the persons accompanying the minors to the performances banned for them, or those who permit minors in their charge to attend such performances.
Continued offences of this nature on the part of the cinema proprietor or manager may lead to the closure of the hall, on request by the police or the judicial authorities, or to the suspension of the license for a period of six months.
One sees from this that the Brazilian legislation is very severe in the matter of protecting youth, and as a result, society in general, from the dangerous effects of certain spectacles.
Statistics.
According to the information supplied in official form to the I. I. E. C. by the Brazilian government, 1447 artistic films, representing a total length of 1 .766.695 metres of film were submitted to the censors last
year. The statistics do not reveal the quantity of film banned or censored in a general way, or banned for minors only. On the other hand, we are told the origin of the films. Apart from 38 films of Brazilian production 1268 films came from the United States, 1 1 4 from Germany, 29 from France, 8 from England, 5 from Russia, 4 from Austria 3 from Spain, 3 from Argentine, 2 from Italy, 1 from Poland, 1 from Chile and 1 from Turkey.
From a special report of the State of Sao Paolo, extracts from which were published in La Cinematographic Francaise in the number of May 2 1931, the local censorship organs and the police authorized the projection of 2279 films of various kinds as against 2674 in 1929.
The larger part of the authorized films came from the United States, followed in order of numerical importance by German films and French films. The Brazilian production furnished 5 % of the films, but this production was nearly all news-reels.
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