Headline
Jeff-Johnson Pictures: Suppression of Cinemagraphs – South Africans Impressed
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1910-07-08
- Publication Year
1910
Page
7
Film Projector / Film(s)
Summary
London, July 7 – The mayors of many cities in the United States had prohibited the exhibition in cinematograph shows of the moving pictures of the great fight between Johnson and Jeffries. The strongest fears prevail that such exhibitions would only tend to inflame the racial feeling between the whites and blacks; Columbia has prohibited absolutely the exhibition of the cinematograph pictures of the fight between Jeffries and Johnson.
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