11. Captain Dugdaleasked the Secretary of State for War whether there is any rule preventing the private showing of films to troops within a certain distance of any public cinema?
§ Captain MargessonThe contracts under which the War Office and the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes hire films from the trade provide that they should not be shown within two miles of a public cinema. No restrictions are, of course, placed on the exhibition of films owned by the War Office or Ministry of Information or of films hired from film libraries available to the ordinary public.
Captain DugdaleWould my right hon. and gallant Friend make this perfectly clear to the military authorities, because I think many of them are under a misapprehension on the point?
§ Captain MargessonCertainly. If there is any doubt, perhaps the Answer I have given to-day will clear the matter up.