IP Certificates
SIR,-.--Yes, indeed, what are parents to do about the hopelessly unsuitable granting of 'U' certificates to films?
Last summer my husband and I and our two child- ren, aged eight and ten, emerged shaken and dis- gusted from watching a mass burning at the stake, close up and in Technicolor with no detail spared. We were on holiday, and it was raining hard, and these circumstances, combined with the educational- sounding title, The Fall of the Roman Empire, and above all the comforting 'U' certificate, had encour- aged us to find suitable enjoyment in the cinema.
Our children's reactions to this .experience made US profoundly thankful that we had not, as we might well have, done, sent them to the cinema alone. As it was, they were swiftly restored by tea and parental comfort. Since then I have felt most strongly that it is the Board of Film Censors that requires censorship.
Smarts Well, Mereworth, Kent
RACHEL GRAHAM
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