Motion Picture Operators

Arthur J. Stewart . Baltimore
George T. Sewell _ ... Baltimore

Operator's Assistant
William Gershourtz _ . Baltimore

The Board consists of a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary,
appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, for a term
of three years. The first appointments are made for terms of one, two
and three years, and as these terms expire a successor is appointed for
a full term of three years (Ch. 890, 1922.)

The duties of the Board, are to examine all films, reels or views to
be exhibited or used in the State of Maryland; to approve such as are
moral and proper, and to condemn or eliminate those which, in the
judgment of the Board, tend to debase or corrupt morals, or incite to
crime.

The Board receives in advance a fee of $2.00 per reel, for each reel
of 1,000 feet or less, submitted for examination, and $1.00 per reel for
each duplicate if submitted at the same time. Upon completion of the
examination the Board issues a certificate stating the result of the
examination and furnishes an official approval seal, record of which is
kept by the Board.

Persons submitting films to the Board for examination, if dis-
satisfied with the result of the first examination, may, upon appeal,
submit the same film to the Board, for re-examination, and finally to
the City Court of Baltimore.

Any person failing to display the approval seal of the Board may
be fined from $6 00 to $10 00, or in default of payment shall be sentenced
to imprisonment from two to five days.

The law under which the Board was operating was found to be in-
adequate A bill, therefore, was introduced and passed by Act of the
Legislature of 1922, Chapter 380, which repealed and re-enacted each
and every section of the original Acts of 1916, 1918 and 1920, with
amendments and changes, conferring additional powers upon the Board
and providing increased penalties for violations of the Act.

The provisions of the Act do not apply to any non-commercial ex-
hibition of films by religious, charitable or fraternal organizations, or
by any library, school or museum, for purely religious, charitable, fra-
ternal or educational purposes. The Board is authorized to issue per-
mits free of charge to organizations of the above character where ex-
hibitions of films of the above type are to be shown in public places of
amusement, such permits to be issued at the discretion of the Board and
without examination of film, provided proper affidavits of character of
film are made to the Board.

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1106-1107 Fidelity Building, Baltimore, Md.

Commissioners: Address. Term Expires.
James A. Latane, Chairman...... .....Baltimore City .. .. .. 1931
John F. Mudd Charles County ..... .. 1929
Jervis Spencer, Jr .. Baltimore County _ ...... 1928
Secretary:
Jas F. Hayward ... Baltimore City