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Page vi - The Foundations of National Glory are set in the homes of the people. They will only remain unshaken while the family life of our race and nation is strong, simple and pure', and its professed object was the 'Regeneration of Race — Spiritual, Moral and Physical' (NCPM, 'The Cinema . . .', vi).
Page lxxv - The best protection for the child will be secured by the following provisions: (1) The reasonable Illumination of all parts of the hall not directly beside the screen. (2) The improvement of the movement of the film so as to reduce flicker, and the withdrawal of films immediately they are damaged. (3) An improvement in taking the picture so as to bring the rate of motion of the objects depicted more nearly to the natural. (4) The Increase in the number of intervals in the show, and the interposition...
Page xxi - ... are having a profound influence upon the mental and moral outlook of millions of our young people— an influence the more subtle in that it is subconsciously exercised— and we leave our labours with the deep convinction that no social problem of the day demands more earnest attention.
Page 100 - ... the question whether permanent defect arises out of attendance at the shows. But there is a recent observation which I am inclined to think has some bearing on the point. The examination of the case of papers of a large number of school children, who have been referred to eye clinics on account of failure to pass the standard vision tests at the schools, shows that there is an increasing number of children who, on examination at the clinic, are found to have nothing the matter with them. At the...
Page xc - ... suitability to the Nation, the cinema should have the support and the official countenance of the State. We want to place it in a position of real dignity. We want it to be something more than a trade ; in fact, we wish it to be one of the assets of our national entertainment and recreation. We are anxious that the cinema should be beyond all suspicion in the mind of the average member of the public.
Page lxxv - ... The improvement of the movement of the film so as to reduce flicker, and the withdrawal of films immediately they are damaged. (3) An improvement in taking the picture so as to bring the rate of motion of the objects depicted more nearly to the natural. (4) The increase in the number of intervals in the show, and the interposition of exhibitions other than that of the optical lantern. (5) The limitation of shows for children to one hour, and the prohibition of "repeats." (6) The reservation of...
Page 318 - BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1.
Page 100 - The evidence is of such a nature that it can not be presented by figures and percentages. It is difficult to answer the question whether permanent defect arises out of attendance at the shows. But there is a recent observation which I am inclined to think has some bearing on the point. The examination of the case of papers of a large number of school children, who have been referred to eye clinics on account of failure to pass the standard vision tests at the schools, shows that there is an increasing...
Page 318 - ... film submitted to him for approval. (2) Such approval shall be signified by a certificate In the prescribed form. (3) Such approval shall not be given in the case of any film which, in the opinion of the censor, depicts any matter that is against public order and decency, or the exhibition of which for any other reason is, in the opinion of the censor, undesirable in the public interest.
Page 100 - making game" of the matter to get a half holiday at the hospital; possible this is so in a few cases. But by far the most likely cause is a condition of fatigue in the children, so that at the time of the test they were incapable of putting out sufficient energy, either ocular or mental, to read the standard types. Everyone is familiar with the fact that in a state of fatigue ordinary feats, easily accomplished in health, cannot be accomplished.