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Imperilling the Prestige of the White Woman
1926
India
The representation of white women on-screen provided a significant source of tension in early debates on film censorship in India. Prior to the 1927 Indian Cinematograph Committee (ICC), the British Social Hygiene Council sent a delegation to India in 1926.
Read more Royal Commission into the Moving Picture Industry
1927
Australia
A Royal Commission into the film industry recommended the introduction of a Commonwealth Film Censorship Board, a woman censor, and that the Board indicate whether film content was suitable for everyone or only for adults.
Read more Indian Cinematograph Committee
1928
India
The 1928 Report of the Indian Cinematograph Committee (“Report”) has been described as “the most comprehensive document extant on the formation of a film industry in a non-Western country”.
Read more Film Censorship Statute
1930
China
China’s first Film Censorship Statute was announced in November 1930 and enacted in January 1931. This was the first Chinese film regulation that had the status of law and which had national reach in its application.
Read more The Silence of Dean Maitland
2024
Australia
One of the most successful Australian productions of the 1930s was almost censored for exportation by Chief Censor Cresswell O’Reilly.
Read more Miss Frontier Mail
1936
India
Starring the “Indian Pearl White” Fearless Nadia (Australia-born Mary Ann Evans or Mary Evans Wadia) and directed by her husband Homi Wadia, Miss Frontier Mail was the third film in the Diamond Thriller series.
Read more 47 Ronin
1941
Japan
Directed by the revered Kenji Mizoguchi, The 47 Rōnin (Genroku Chūshingura Parts I and II) is the second of many film productions depicting one of Japan’s most well known historical stories.
Read more All India Radio Controversy
1943
India
All India Radio (AIR) is India’s public radio broadcasting service, established in 1930 as Indian State Broadcasting Service and renamed as All India Radio in the year of its first news bulletin, 1936.
Read more Shakuntala
1943
India
Shakuntala is a costume drama directed by V. Shantaram, the founder and former director of Prabhat Film Company and subsequently a member of the 1951 Film Enquiry Committee.
Read more Indian News Parade
1943
India
The British Government in India produced 126 issues of the weekly India News Parade between 1943 and 1946.
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