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(6) Gruesome and unduly distressing scenes will be disapproved* These include shooting, stabbing, profuse bleeding, prolonged views of men dying and of corpses, lashing and. whipping, and other torture scenes, hangings, lynchings, electrocutions, surgical operations, and views, of persons in delirium or insane*
(7) Studio scenes in which the human form is shown in the nude, or the body is unduly exposed will be disapproved*
(8) Pictures, and parts of pictures,, dealing with abortion and malpractice, will be disapproved* These will include themes and incidents having to do with eugenics, *birth control *, ••race suicide n and similar subjects*
Stories, or scenes holding up to ridicule and reproach races, classes or other social groups, as well as the irreverent and sacrilegious treatment of religious bodies or other things held to be sacred will be disapproved* The materialization of the figure of Christ may be disapproved*
(10) pictures which deal with counterfeiting* will be disapproved..
Cll) Scenes showing men and women living together without marriage, and in adultery, will be disapproved* Discussion of the question of the consummation of marriage, in pictures, will be disapproved*
(IS) The brutal treatment 6f children and of animals may lead to the disapproval of the theme, or tit incidents in film stories*
(13) The use of profane and objectionable language in subtitles, will be disapproved*
(14) Objectionable titles, as well as subtitles of pictures, will be disapproved *
(15) Tiews of incendiarism, burning, wrecking and the destruction of property, which may put like action into the minds of those of evil instincts, or may degrade the morals of the young, will be disapproved.
(16) Gross and offensive drurikanhess, especially if women have a part in the scenes, will be disapproved.
(17) Pictures which deal at length with gun play, and the use of knives, and are set in the underworld, will be disapproved. When the whole theme is crime, unrelieved by other scenes, the film will be disapproved* Prolonged fighting scenes will be shortened, and brutal fights will be wholly disapproved*
(18) Vulgarities of a gross kind, such as often appear in slapstick and other screen comedies, will be disapproved* Comedy which burlesques morgues, funerals, hospitals, insane asylums, the lying in of women and houses of ill-fame, will be disapproved*
(19) Sensual kissing and love making scenes, men and women in bed together and indelicate sexual situations, whether in comedies or pictures of other .classes will be disapproved* Bathing scenes, which pass the limits of propriety, lewd and immodest dancing, the needless exhibitions