Motion Picture Commission : hearings before the Committee on Education, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, second session, on bills to establish a Federal Motion Picture Commission (1978)
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]^94 MOTION PICTURE COMMISSION. (3) Every cinematograph picture intended for public exhibition shall, upon request, be shown to representatives of the city magistracy prior to such exhibi- tion and in a room by them to be designated. (4) The list (rule 2), which, with the notice of the magisterial examination, is to he handed back to the exhibitor, is to be kept ready during the pubic ex- hibitions so that it can at any time be shown to the agents of the city magis- tracy who care to look at it. POWERS OF CITY MAGISTRACY. (5) The public exhibition of cinematograph pictures may be given only with the titles under which they have been entered in the list (rule 2). (6) So-callwl special exhibitions, "for men only." or "for women only," are not permitted. ^ , ,^ , t^ ,. r^ (7) Pictures which in spite of the authorization of the Koyal Police Com- mission in Munich appear unsuitable to the city magistracy may not be publicly presented. Public advertisement of them is forbidden. (8) The exhibitor is hound, upon request of the city magistracy, to give any information relating to each exhibition and to comply with all directions and suggestions, especiallv in relation to posters. (9) Six tickets entitling bearer to visit the performance at any time free of charge are to be delivered to the city magistracy. The representatives of the citymagistracy shall be accorded free entrance at all times and unhindered, even without tickets. ^, „ . (10) If the exhibitor does not personally conduct the business he shall im- mediately give notice of this to the city magistracy; furthermore, he shall, without delay, appoint a manager and give his name to the city magistracy (christian and family name and residence^ (11) Story-tellers, reciters, declaimers. and such may be employed only with the permission of the city magistracy. When they are to take part in a juvenile exhibition the consent of the local school commission must be obtained in addition. CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED TO REGULAR PERFORMANCES. (12) Attendance at ordinary cinematograph exhibitions is forbidden to chil- dren and young people who have not com)>leted their sixteenth year. The exhibitor, as well as his em])loyees are bound to refuse such persons admission to the ordinary exhibitions, and to order them away, whether they be accom- panied by adults or not. In proper places, especially at the box office and entrances, large placards are to be poste^l with this notice in clearly legible characters: "Admission to ordinary performances is forbidden by the police to young persons who have not conii)leted their sixteenth year." (13) Children under school age may not attend even the exhibitions "For the young"; other children under 10 yesirs of age may atte-ad only when ac- companied by older persons. (14) Exhibitioi'.s for the young will ho allowed by the police only upor special re(]uest of the exhibitor and in acrordance with a program ])resonted to and approved by the authorities. Tliey sliali i)e designalt'd in the laiblic adver- tisements as well as in clear and visible notices, one to be placed at the entrance and one at the box office as " Exhibitions for the young." (u- a-* " Family exhibi- tions f( r the young, approved by the iioli-e." (1.1) Abbreviations, but not sni>ph'iii(M'.ts. may be m-de in the programs of the exhibitions for the young approved by the city magistracy. (10) The petition for ai>proval of an exhibition for the young shall be handed in to tlM' citv magistracy at least live days before the intended exhibition. To this petition" shall be attached, in duiilici'.te. the program, as well as an exact descriiKion of the pictures to be shown. EXHiniTlONS "FOR TTIK YOT^NO." (17) The films for an exhibition for the young must be in readiness in the theater for examination by the board of control not later than 9 a. m. on the day preceding the exhibition. (X8) Exhibitions for the young may be regularly given only in the afternoons of Wednesdays, Saturdays. Sundays, and holidays—in winter (from October 1