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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 5. 1962.

Routine Administration

Routine Administration

The major duty of the censor is not determining unsuitability, but suitability, and much of his work is routine red tape — classification and grading usually, book-keeping often, and cutting sometimes.

New censorship regulations were gazetted in 1957 covering the registration of films. To quote from the Annual Report made by the Censor in that year:

"The main effects of the regulations have been: to clarify the significance of the five classes of certificate now available and bring the wording of the certificates up to date, with the emphasis on "suitability" rather than "unsuitability"; to make a clear distinction between the great body of films which are either approved outright or approved with merely a recommendation and are in no way restricted, and the much smaller group which carry a certificate requiring the definite exclusion of persons outside the age group or class of filmgoer; to facilitate the enforcement of this manatorily restrictive certificate; to provide for adequate notification of censorship gradings on posters, in newspapers, and other forms of advertising; and to make various improvements in administrative procedure, such as giving the Censor discretionary power to exempt certain types of film from examination."

A film you'll not see—Marlon Brando in The Wild One.

A film you'll not see—Marlon Brando in The Wild One.

The regulations referred to came into force during the time that Mr Gordon Mirams was Censor, and divided films into five categories with a certificate for each.