Quotation: "I am concerned with the effect
upon the lives of our young people of too many films coming from
Hollywood especially on Saturday afternoons when you can see
thousands of young children, from working-class areas in particular,
going to matinees and seeing films which they ought not to see. They
ought to be seeing films of an educational character, or films
bringing the best out of life rather than films which cater for the
emotions." House of Commons, 20 December 1944
Ellis Smith
b.1896 d.1969 Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent
1935-50, Stoke South 1950-66. |