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 #:
00029
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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BABY NEEDS STOCKINGS to year in this country. Yet "Rain" changed its name and the profession of its villain so that it could escape houndings by the censors. Fortunately, audiences could go to any corner bookstore and buy the original story and play, and fill in the gaps sliced by the censors. It is also worthy of note that Gloria Swanson, an old star, owns stock in the company that produced this dire and sinister movie; otherwise it is doubtful that it would ever have reached the screen. In the movie "Old San Francisco" the heroine is kidnapped by a Chinaman and sold in the white slave traffic. Just as the villain is giving thanks to Buddha, the San Francisco earthquake intervenes to save her, thus explaining a catastrophe that cost many lives. "Old San Francisco" was not censored because it satisfied the one great tenet of the movie censors: "God is a force in the world that moves to preserve Christian virginity." One of the most salacious scenes ever put into a film occurred in "The Prodigal," a dramatization of the Biblical legend. Practically all this movie contained was magnificent por 7