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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1988

MONITORING OF FILM INDUSTRY WELCOMED

HONG KONG'S FILM

INDUSTRY

HAS

FAR-REACHING

ON

INFLUENCE WILL NO DOUBT AS TO AND VIOLENCE

SOCIETY, AND EVERYONE WHO CARES FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT WELCOME THE MONITORING OF THIS TRADE IN A REASONABLE MANNER SO PREVENT FILM OPERATORS FROM SELLING IDEAS OF OBSCENITY TO YOUNG PEOPLE.

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THE HON MRS ROSANNA TAM SAID THIS IN TODAY (WEDNESDAY) DURING THE DEBATE ON THE FILM CENSORSHIP BILL 1988.

BILL, MRS TAM SAID THE GENERAL SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE

A MORE SPECIFIC CLASSIFICATION SPIRIT OF THE BILL WAS TO INTRODUCE

A MORE RELAXING STANDARD SYSTEM WHEREBY THE EXHIBITION OF FILMS OF

WHILE BY

YOUNG AUDIENCES VIEWING WAS

FOR

ADULTS, PROTECTED FROM THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF OBSCENE AND VIOLENT FILM9.

ALLOWED

WERE

IN HONG "THE BILL RECOMMENDS THAT FILMS FOR PUBLIC EXHIBITION KONG SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED INTO THREE CATEGORIES, ONE OF WHICH WILL PROHIBITED FROM VIEWING BY PERSONS BELOW 18 OF AGE.

CONTRAVENTION, PROSECUTION.

THE

CINEMA

OPERATORS CONCERNED

BR

IN CASE OF ARE LIABLE

ANY

TO

"BEING A YOUTH WORKER MYSELF, I FULLY THE BILL AND THE AFORESAID RECOMMENDATIONS,

SHR

SAID,

HOWEVER,

THAT FILMS

IN

IN

..

SUPPORT THE SPIRIT OF MRS TAM SAID.

FROM YOUNG PEOPLE PREVENTING

SHOULD CONSIDERATION CINEMA, VIEWING OBSCENE AND VIOLENT

GOT INTO THE BAD ALSO BE GIVEN TO HELPING THOSE YOUNGSTERS WHO HAD HABIT OF VIEWING SUCH FILMS.

CONCERNED HAVE IN THE PARENTS OF THE NOT SUITABLE FOR SHE NOTED.

"AT PRESENT, THE IDEA THAT THE AUTHORITIES MIND IS TO ISSUE A LETTER OF WARNING TO INFORM UNDER-AGE VIEWERS IF THEY ARE FOUND VIEWING FILMS PERSONS BELOW THE AGE OF 18 BY A PUBLIC OFFICER,

THE MOST SENSIBLE AND LOGICAL WHILE AGREEING THAT THIS WAS

ALONE WERE THING TO DO, SHE HOWEVER BELIEVED EFFORTS MADE BY PARENTS NOT SUFFICIENT TO ENHANCE THE HEALTHY GROWTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE.

THEIR FAMILIES SHE SAID YOUNG PEOPLE NEEDED HELP FROM OUTSIDE

WORKERS WHO PAID AND, IN THIS RESPECT, THERE WERE THE SCHOOL SOCIAL

AND CLOSE ATTENTION AND GAVE GUIDANCE TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN SCHOOLS, WHOSE WORK SHOULD BE GIVEN DUE WEIGHT.

STUDENTS

ARE

FOUND VIEWING CATEGORY

THEIR PARENTS,

III

"I THINK IF YOUNG

SCHOOL SOCIAL FILMS IN CINEMAS, APART FROM THEIR

THESE YOUNG PEOPLE CAN BR WORKERS SHOULD ALSO BE INFORMED SO THAT

OF THE BAD HABIT OF VIEWING GIVEN FULL ASSISTANCE IN GETTING RID OBSCENE AND VIOLENT FILMS OR EVEN IN SOLVING THEIR LATENT PROBLEMS.

**

/MRS TAK