English Translation

156 control over cinema and its subordinates to Nazi intentions, both in creative and business matters. The Reich Protector appointed the president of the Czech Republic and his deputy, performed "immediate supervision" over the Czechoslovak Republic and approved the statutes of the headquarters. According to Section 7, the film headquarters was entitled to lay down the conditions for the operation, opening and cancellation of the film business and to issue regulations on the economically important issues of the entire film business, in particular the manner and content of contracts in the field of the various categories of occupations of the movie economy. Ust. § 8 then prohibited the public presentation of films if the producer could not prove that all of the film participants were members of the CFO. Film headquarters were subject to German jurisdiction in civil matters (§11). The film laboratory in Bohemia and Moravia (Filmprüfstelle in Böhmen und Mähren) later eventually renamed the Office for the Approval of Films, which was subject to the culturally political department of the Office of the Reich Protector. Its activities affected all areas of film production and distribution. She was also subject to all short films or advertising films made in the Protectorate or imported. Only in 1939-1941 she banned 1 709 films and other films of domestic and foreign production. (420) The banned films were from Czech Riding Patrol, Third Company, both about Czech. Legionnaires in Russia, Undefeated Army on mobilisation in 1938, Hej rup, The World belongs to us with Voskovc and Werich, C and k. field marshal with V. Burian, from foreign Modern times, Křižník Potemkin, Ben Hur etc.In addition to censorship interventions the Nazis wanted to occupy the German production company and limit Czech production to about 30 films per year, check rentals and gain influence over biographers. The implementation of the entire plan should look as if Czechs and Germans should continue to rule in Czech cinema together. By implementing this plan, the occupiers gained virtually all supervision over the Protectorate Cinema, by 1940 all manufacturing companies were liquidated and only two production companies were left with Lucerna Film (M. Havel) and National Film (K. Feix), the rental companies were organized into a monopoly company called Kosmos. (421) In the summer of 1942, after a number of peripetia, a new production facility for the films Prag-Film, created by AB's reorganisation of the German UFA Group, was established.