COUNCIL GENTLY ‘BAN’ PEACE ACTIVIST FILM
From:
Roy Pennington
Date:
Mar 21 09:02 UTC
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COUNCIL GENTLY ‘BAN’ PEACE ACTIVIST FILM
further to this saga
Whilst not wishing to dampen the fervour of the other posts on this matter,
let’s be clear that the council did not ‘ban’ the film, the DoY panicked.
The likelihood of the council solicitor’s pursuing any subsequent action of
breaching the terms of license is low and any application by the local Police
for a review of that licensing would have been laughed out of court.
The DoY should have argued that because of the lateness of the advice more
public disturbance would have been caused by shutting the doors of the
cinema than allowing the show to go on. The DoY may have had other reasons for
such craven compliance, such as covering up H&S breaches or the occasions
they may have been showing non-certificated films.
It is ironic that the reason DoY had a membership requirement up to 1985 was to
avoid the Eady Levy (a ticket tax which funded the British Film Fund Agency)
and which therefore allowed them to show uncertificated films.
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