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'File 32/7 (4/6) Bahrain Cinemas' [21r] (41/200)
The record is made up of 1 file (100 folios). It was created in 7 Apr 1934-22 Jan 1949. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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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
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This file contains correspondence regarding the establishment of a cinema in Bahrain. The file contains correspondence between the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain and Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain concerning the desirability of opening a cinema in the country and the logistics involved in doing so. The file contains a letter from April 1937 (in English and Arabic) in which Belgrave grants two members of the Al Khalifa family permission to establish a cinema in Bahrain.
The file contains a number of letters from other individuals and companies interested in establishing a cinema in the country (ff 9-11,14,28,58-59).
The file also contains documentation regarding the licensing and censorship of films as follows:
- ordinance for licensing and controlling cinemas and other places of public amusement compiled by the Government of Bahrain (ff 66-69);
- government of Bengal From c. 1758-1858, the East India Company's administration in Bengal. From 1773-1833, the most senior of the three subdivisions of India, also known as the Supreme Government of India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. , Political Department, Manual of the Bengal Board of Censors, 1936 (ff 80-99).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (100 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 100; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-57; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A mixed foliation/pagination sequence covers the file notes between ff 70-79. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. Pagination: the file includes a booklet (ff 80-99) which contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/817
- Title
- 'File 32/7 (4/6) Bahrain Cinemas'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:2v, 5r:6v, 8r:8v, 12r:13v, 16r:27v, 29r:32v, 34r:34v, 36r:37v, 39r:42v, 44r:44v, 51r:51v, 54r:56v, 60r:60v, 62r:63v, 70r:99v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence