Moving Picture News (1911) . FROM THE OBSERVATORYBy G. F. Blaisdell The recent teapot tempest over the censorship of pictures,which was precipitated by the Womans Municipal League ofNew York, has served to give wide publicity to the fact thatthe censorship board receives a substantial part of its sup-port from the film manufacturers. There was no secret atany time of this fact, the boards last annual report clearlysetting forth the source of its income. The demand of the league for censorship by the municipalauthorities seems to have no particular necessity for itsbase. Probably an official bo
Moving Picture News (1911) . FROM THE OBSERVATORYBy G. F. Blaisdell The recent teapot tempest over the censorship of pictures,which was precipitated by the Womans Municipal League ofNew York, has served to give wide publicity to the fact thatthe censorship board receives a substantial part of its sup-port from the film manufacturers. There was no secret atany time of this fact, the boards last annual report clearlysetting forth the source of its income. The demand of the league for censorship by the municipalauthorities seems to have no particular necessity for itsbase. Probably an official board would be no more satis-factory to the busybodies than is the present one. Probably,also, the salaries the city would pay would be totally inade-quate to procure the calibre of men and women now servingwithout compensation on the national board. * * * Hearing of an impending duel between Charles L. Bargy, afamous stage swordsman, and Malherb, a Paris newspaperwriter, a battery of moving picture cameras were gathered atthe
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