Cinema: Ramparts in Pennsylvania

Last fortnight in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas upheld an order of the Pennsylvania State Board of Censors banning a revised version of the MARCH OF TIME'S first full-length feature, a story of how the U. S. entered and fought World War I called The Ramparts We Watch (TIME, July 29). Reason: since The Ramparts was approved by Mrs. Edna Carroll and her assistant censors in early August, MOT had inserted 900 feet from Baptism of Fire, the Nazis' record of their Polish Blitzkrieg.

Declaring that Baptism of Fire sequences might frighten...

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