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CONCLUSIONS AND POSTULATES traditions and tastes. It would also be possible then to enlist the help of regional universities for a serious study of those psychological and educational problems which this book has rather put than solved.
In addition, considering the infancy of the children's film, I do not hesitate to suggest that the central State authorities (Ministry of Education and Ministry of Information) should go into feature film production for children. Such a production unit could easily be linked up with a State film-distributing corporation, the necessity for which I shall discuss presently. So far we have only discussed suggestions with regard to children's films, or cinemas for child audiences.
Any suggestion of this kind must raise the problem of film censorship. I have given examples of some of the recent activities of the British Board of Film Censors in several passages in this book. The problem is fairly simple. Only a trained child-psychologist can say what kind of film may be shown to a young picture-goer, but I do not think that such an expert has ever been asked to sit regularly on a censorial committee of the British Board of Film Censors. But, apart from the problem of what is and what is not suitable for children, the censorship for adult films, too, needs thorough revision. We no longer live in the age before the first Reform Bill.1
Read, for instance, the following instructions 'Re "U" and "A" films', being an extract from Annual Report 1928. (This extract represented an up-to-date instruction in July, 1945.)
Tt is hardly possible to give a list of the numerous grounds for discrimination between the "U" and "A" films, but the broad principle which has always regulated the Board's decision is that nothing shall be shewn under the first category which is calculated to impair, in the juvenile mind, respect for morality and good conduct. Therefore, no film is passed as a "U" subject which deals with irregular sex problems, or exaggerated love-making, or incidents shewing unhappy family jars and dissensions, or unhappy marital relations, or "crime", especially such as is capable of imitation, or any incident in which the recognised Authorities of the Law are held up either to odium or ridicule. Extreme violence and horrors, calculated to frighten children, are also debarred
1 Miss Dorothy Knowles' book The Censor, the Drama and the Film, 19001934, is still the best account of the censorship problem in Great Britain. Yet Miss Knowles does not believe in state censorship, whereas I think it is the only method of getting rid of the present anomalous system.
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