Censored : the private life of the movie (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Date:
1930
Publisher:
New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, Incorporated
Volume:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Leaf #:
00024
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MOVIE Many people are not aware that such persons exist; that every screen exhibition is under the absolute tyranny of these mysterious potentates. Your newspaper reaches you fresh from the press room. Your magazine comes to your table with no more sanctification than the editor and the Post Office department choose to give it. The stage has its censors but with the exception of Boston and Philadelphia, they are not given first choice. They must wait until the public has passed judgment and then take their censure to the courts. But the movie goes through one purifying room to another. It may be that the movie is a lost art, as useless to mankind — certainly to an American adult — as a fingernail. It is true that a peculiar association of circumstances has made it possible for an obscure minority to direct and repress the movie to an unbelievable extent. It may be true that the actual work of this group is of no importance. The masses made the movie. It is a nationalism, a sectionalism of thought, desire, frustration, written large. Possibly the elimination of all censorship in the world would not save one soul, nor release 4