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"OTHER MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL BETTERMENT 49oTheQ,.object of the committee is to makeavailable to missionaries, Chinese educators,Association secretaries and any others interested, a listof films which have been approved by persons competent tojudge, so that they may feel confident in ordering a givenfilm that it is fit to be shown before any audience. Thiscommittee has been working more than a year now, andover three hundred films have already been passed. Thefirst list was sent out early in the fall of 1915, another inthe early part of 1916 and a third is now in the press. Inthese lists the following information is :given number andtitle of film, length, classification, moral quality, interestquality, (excellent, good or fair), suitable for what audiences, and a short synopsis of the story.So far the Pathe Company is the onlyone W^^D S to co-operate with the censoringcommittee, but as it does most of the filmbusiness in China, the Committee s work becomes quiteeffective. There is a great responsibility upon Christianpeople to endeavour to keep clean the stream of visualimpressions coming to China through moving picture films.Any one who knows the moral standards of the Chinese,how much in Western freedom and social practices is misunderstood and even shocking to them, any one who has seenthe genera] run of films presented in moving picture theatres in China, will appreciate the need of censoring.The committee cannot say to the companies operatingin China "You must not show this or that film, but it canput into the hands of those who desire it, a list of approvedfilms, and in this and other ways, encourage the use ofeducational and other films, of good moral quality.ExThe Pathe Company bears part of the expenses of this work, and has also agreed tohave special educational films, suggested by the committee,sent out from America. With their co-operation a neatimitation-morocco loose-leaf cover has been gotten out, andthe lists are printed on leaves to fit. To insure proper usea nominal fee of one dollar is being charged for cover and