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Deletions and rejections of the New York Department of Education, Division of Motion Pictures, for the fifteen month period beginning January 1, 1932 and ending March 31, 1933.
Features
Percentage
Shorts
Percentage
Totals
Percentages
Number of films examined
903
1394
2297
Number of reels examined
6533
2036
8569
Number of films passed
555
61.5
1315
94.4
1870
85.6
Number of reels passed
5725
87.3
1945
96.5
7670
89.5
Number of films censored
335
35.9
78
5.6
413
18.0
Number of reels censored
711
10.9
90
3.5
801
9.4
Number of films rejected
13
2.6
1
14
0.6
Number of reels rejected
97
1.8
1
98
1.1
According to the above chart it appears that the censors in dealing with feature films — the main output of motion pictures —
— pass 61.5% i
— delete something from 35.9% <
— reject 2.6%
Since censorship seems to have almost no work to do with respect to so-called "shorts", we may omit summaries. The important summary fact to be kept in mind is that the censors either delete or reject 38.5% of all feature films submitted; in other words, more than one-third of all featured motion picture films are affected by the censors.
Although we are not in position to furnish descriptions of the feature films which have been entirely rejected during this period, something of the character of each may be inferred from the titles. It should be mentioned that three of the films which the New York State censors rejected were latj: passed and given permission to exhibit.