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APPENDIX G.
Suggestions to Inspectors of Films*
Bombay Board of Film Censors.
General Principles.
1. No generally and rigidly applicable rules of censorship can
be laid down.
2. It is essential to be consistent hit impossible to aim at
strictly logical decisions.
3. Each film must be judged on its own merits.
4. Nothing should be approved which in the Inspectors honest
opinion is calculated to demoralise an audience or any section
of it.
5. Ihe following kinds of films are liable to objefltion>-those
which:
(a) Extenuate crimei or which familiarise young people wdth
crime so as to make them conclude that theft, robbery and crimes
of violence are normal incidents of ordinary life and not greatly
* to be reprobated! or which exhibit the actual methods by which
thieves carry out their purposes and make the methods of crii.e
the chief theraei or in which crime is the dominant feature of
a serial and not merely an episode in the story.
(b) Undermine the teachings of morality, by showing vice
in an attractive form even though retribution follows or casting
a halo or glory or success round heads of the viciousi or suggest
ing that a person is morally justified in succumbing to tempta
tion in order to escape from bad circumstances or ungen^ial work!
or bringing into contempt the institution of marriages or suggest
ing abnormal sexual relations* or lowering the sacredness of the
family ties.
(o) Exhibit indecorous dress or absolute nudity of the
living (except infants; and small children); or nude statues or
figures in suggestive positions.
(d) Bring into contempt public character acting as such,
e.g., soldiers wearing H.M. uniform, Ministers of religion,
Minister of the Crown, Ambassadors and official representatives