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Hands of Hollywood
Third, censorship influences these changes. In actual history, our heroes did many things which we dare not depict on the screen. We have to change their very characters, as well as events, because censorship does not want the truth — it wants a censor's idea of what the American people should have. If the censor — which only too often is the case — lacks education, knows nothing of history, less of drama, and absolutely nothing of art, he is allowed to prescribe for the theater-goer, just the same.
However, some changes are to be welcomed. Doug's "D'Artagnan," which was his own creation, based on historical data, in 'THE THREE MUSKETEERS," and in "THE IRON MASK," entertains and inspires us more than Dumas' "D'Artagnan" would or could entertain us, on the screen.
Before criticising the "mistakes" in pictures, it would be well to salt our criticism with reflection.
We boast of our army and navy. The whole machinery of government is behind them. But what happens? Naval disasters, submarine tragedies, fatal aeroplane accidents. Appalling railroad accidents also occur, accidents that sometimes seem, to us, to be stupid and inexcusable. We are promised sweeping investigations. It is not necessary to state the results of these investigations because everyone knows the results.
After all, we do not entrust our lives to the motion picture producers nor do they promise to protect us. Yet, let a few trivial mistakes appear in an otherwise splendid picture, and up rises a strident chorus of wails and imprecations which threaten to dislodge the moon from the sky.
Consider the clubs, societies, and various organizations, as well as unorganized individuals, who spend time, money (not their own) and floods of energy criticising pictures. Some misguided persons have gone so far in their "picture bigotry" that they claim changes in historical pictures menace the education of children. This claim is absurd.
No child ever grasped the feel of a period, the atmosphere of a country, the momentous, stirring effect of a famous battle, as quickly
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