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 #:
00034
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 saloon-wreckers, but he also observes rigidly the fundamental characteristics of sex. To the movie censor love must end in marriage. His reasoning cannot attain a higher complexity. In "Variety/' the famous German movie that brought Emil Jannings to this country, the censors, New York excepted, cut out almost two reels, destroying the plot completely. There is a humiliating attitude held by the entire movie control group. The papers, the novels, the books you read are published in large cities, as a rule, but they depend upon the support of all well-informed people everywhere. Movie producers, highly uninformed as to the real character of small towns, allow censors to badger them into cutting out "sex" scenes in films bound for the provinces. If the "sex" scene is just a Gilbert-Garbo necking party, then art and audiences have suffered no loss. If, on the other hand, it is a restrained dramatic situation such as was introduced in the first reel of "Variety," its loss destroys the meaning of the whole plot. Eighth Avenue day labourers in New York City could see "Variety" as it was made by its directors, but 10