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Governor Millfken charged that censorship reduces an art or medium of expression to the capacity of political appointees who cannot be expected to exercise any judgment other than that which their own individual experiences and mentalities provide. "It is not to be presumed", he added, "that any 3, 5, or 50 persons in this country whose services are obtainable at the salaries paid to censors have the ability to determine what the other 120,000,000 citizens are to see or hear."
He pointed out that each week an average of about 54 miles of film are released in the United States. Members of the censorship boards themselves neither can nor do see even 10% of this total. They must delegate much of the work to subordinates.
As a further safeguard against the presentation of objectionable films, Governor Milliken cited the intramural "supervision" which the moving picture industry has been maintaining since the establishment in 1922 of the so-called movie "chamber of commerce". As a result of the consultations between this body and individual producers, the production of about 200 popular books and plays has been prevented after the production contracts had actually been signed. . . .
In 1926, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America had created an advisory bureau, one objective of which was to exercise centralized supervision over the quality of plays and books accepted for production, to advise producers with regard to possible deletions in advance of general release, and to do everything possible, in a friendly way, to preserve the industry from missteps. In 1929, this department, known as the Studio Relations Committee, comprised 16 persons, each of whom represented a producing studio. Through these members advice was given to the men and women actually engaged in writing, directing, or acting in the pictures in process of production.
Public opinion was expressed to the advisory bureau through the Public Relations Department of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Incorporated. Local opinions were relayed by representatives of 46 prominent social organizations which had agreed to assist the industry. In addition, duly appointed representatives of these national groups were to be maintained in Hollywood