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 #:
00051
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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THE SAINTS AT WORK the other. As a matter of fact it was one of the most delicate, restrained performances ever given in a movie. Eleanor Boardman, an intelligent and capable young lady, in appearance and action, did this magnificent job. "The Crowd" was among the best movies made by an American director in 1928. Yet a fine piece of work, for once restrained, and handled by an artist, was cut because the ladies and gentlemen of the old South had been spending too much time over custard pie comedies and movie-fan-magazines to understand real artistry. "Unwelcome Children" was rejected and thrown out of the state. The movie was not important; the comment was: "This film is a photoplay with a clearly defined well-acted plot, but it involves such delicate questions as eugenics, birth control, and abortion, contraceptives and the like. It is the unanimous opinion of the members of this division that these questions, whatever their merit, are not fit material for exploitation on the motion picture screen. . . . The story embodies a most repulsive scene, the rape of a young woman social 21