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What does Phillips (1914) actually report the National Board of Censorship or other censors require, and which sentences are his own claims or opinions rather than reported rules?

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1914 US trade advice, mostly negative result. The chapter reports one effect of the Board in one sentence: it is thanked 'for the exclusion of actual deeds of crime'. It gives no list of rules, no procedure, no date, no source and no other censor. The rest is Phillips's opinion: the Board is 'composed almost wholly of persons' opposed to crime, 'intolerant to its employment at all', and he hopes for 'a broader view'. His other limits ('laws of the country', decency, 'moral ending') are written as his own advice, not attributed to a board. Outside the chapter, the glossary defines a censor as a person employed by 'National or Local Board of Censorship' to criticize plays for 'moral influence', and the script-format passage mentions a Board of Censorship notice at the end of a film's projected contents; neither gives rule text.

1914 US trade advice, mostly negative result. The chapter reports one effect of the Board in one sentence: it is thanked 'for the exclusion of actual deeds of crime'. It gives no list of rules, no procedure, no date, no source and no other censor. The rest is Phillips's opinion: the Board is 'composed almost wholly of persons' opposed to crime, 'intolerant to its employment at all', and he hopes for 'a broader view'. His other limits ('laws of the country', decency, 'moral ending') are written as his own advice, not attributed to a board. Outside the chapter, the glossary defines a censor as a person employed by 'National or Local Board of Censorship' to criticize plays for 'moral influence', and the script-format passage mentions a Board of Censorship notice at the end of a film's projected contents; neither gives rule text. Curator qualifications: Only one reported Board effect; the rest is Phillips's opinion. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70937/pg70937.txt",
      "note": "ch. VII lines 1971-1972"
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  • [sourced_fact] 1914 US trade advice, mostly negative result. The chapter reports one effect of the Board in one sentence: it is thanked 'for the exclusion of actual deeds of crime'. It gives no list of rules, no procedure, no date, no source and no other censor. The rest is Phillips's opinion: the Board is 'composed almost wholly of persons' opposed to crime, 'intolerant to its employment at all', and he hopes for 'a broader view'. His other limits ('laws of the country', decency, 'moral ending') are written as his own advice, not attributed to a board. Outside the chapter, the glossary defines a censor as a person employed by 'National or Local Board of Censorship' to criticize plays for 'moral influence', and the script-format passage mentions a Board of Censorship notice at the end of a film's projected contents; neither gives rule text. · locator: ch. VII lines 1971-1972 source

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