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 #:
00054
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:
June 20, 2024
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PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MOVIE III — Scribner's prints dialogue suggesting illicit love and venereal disease, and is read openly in Virginia. The Virginia board of censors makes no pretence of working for the public good. It admits that it is engaged in a profitable, if unusual business. In its report to the governor at the end of 1928 it started off with the amazing statement: "Business steadily increases. Never before in the history of censorship has the volume of business been so great. The total reelage inspected was 6230 as against 5944 in the preceding year. The total receipts for 192728 were $27,624.75. The nearest approach to this came in 1924-5 when the excess of receipts over expenses cleared a total of $4,838.13." We can thus conclude that the cutting of "A Woman of Affairs" in order to avoid showing the citizens a scene intimating that men and women love out of wedlock, and the annihilation of the beautiful German "Homecoming" were merely business matters, committed in order to make a good report for the governor. Under the title "Pruning Knife Busy" the board boasts of the proud fact that it cut more 24