Juvenile delinquency (1955)

180 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Also, on Friday, June 17, a picture explaining what was on the back cover of the preceding day's Variety, but the inference may have been this was in connection with a motion-picture advertisement which Mr. White had some jurisdiction over. That is not the case. It is an advertisement of a young lady who is going to appear in a night-club show and has nothing to do with the movies. I don't want the record to have any inference Mr. White had anything to do with it. We realize the difficult position Mr. White has, and he seems to be a sincere man. I know he is trying. I hope we can be of some assistance to one another. I think in the number of people who have spoken to me about want- ing to ask questions, or what not, that if we had a lot of time I would give everybody who wanted to ask a question a chance to stand up and say something about it or make a statement. I think, though, as a rule, in view of the shortage of time, that anyone who has a ques- tion, if they would write it out and submit it to me. I will go over them and if they wish to make a statement, if they will write it down and give a summary or indication of what they want to talk about, w^e would probably save time. Our next witness will be Mr. Max Gilford, of the Independent Motion Picture Producers and Independent Motion Picture Producers for Television. (Assembly bill No. 183 was marked '"Exhibit No. 11" and reads as follows:) Exhibit No. 11 Amended in Assembly May 27, 1955 California Legislature —1955 Regular Session assembly bill no. 183 Introduced by Mr. Bonelli, January 6, 1955. Referred to Committee on Judiciary An act to add Section 299 to the Penal Code, relating to comic booliS and magazines The people of the State of California do enact as follows : Section 1. Section 299 is added to the Penal Code, to read: SOOt S'^ery pereeftT fe=i» o? eefporutioft is gtH^t-y ef a Hiie dcmcaH ep whe eells-j gives ftway ©f ift any way f«fmefeee to asy pei'9e» «ftde* *fee age ©I iS yea^s afty aft aeee«ftt ef efitae aad wfeiefe depie4«T fey %fee «9e ef dfawiftge ©* p hotograph a ihe commig sieft ©? ftttefi*pte4 eoftiflftissieft ©f -fefee eriffiee ef- ai^ofty aesawii wii-fe ■eawstie efeem i eaisT assatii-t witfe a deadly -weapefty fetH=giafy? feidftappiftgj mayh etft; ftiHi=dei=7 paper i^efe b ery, thefti ef yektHta r y jmaftektH ghtc fr 299. Every person who sells, gives away, or otherivise furnishes to any minor, or who has in his possession roith intent to sell, give away, or otherwise furnish to such a minor, any illustrated crime comic hook or magazine devoted to the publication and exploitation of real or fictional deeds of violent bloodshed, lust, or imniorality, or of horror, so massed, as reasonably to tend to incite minors to violence, or depraved or immoral acts against the person, or any book, pamphlet, magazine or other printed matter, specifically including comic books, devoted to the publication and exploitation of sex or of matter of an indecent character, rvhich, for a minor, is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, indecent, or disgusting, is guilty of a misdemeanor. As used in this section "illustrated crime comic book or magazine" means any book, magazine, or pamphlet in whicifi an account of crime is set forth by means of a series of five or more draicings or photographs in sequence, which are accom- panied by either narrative writing or xvords represented as spoken by a pictured ■character, whether such narrative tvords appear in balloons, captions or on or immediately adjacent to the photograph drawing.