Censored : the private life of the movie (1930)

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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 #:
00062
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 02, 2025
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PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MOVIE ened the board, or from seeing too many movies they read into the caption a very sinister and difficult meaning, because to a normal man or woman it was nothing but a very amusing wise-crack. The Ohio board is steeped in fear of this kind. It ordered a long scene cut from "Street of Sin" because "of expression on man's face as he looks at Salvation Army girl." The actor was Emil Jannings and it is indeed complimentary even to him for the board to suggest that the mere memory of the look on his face would turn tender Ohioians into raving predatory beasts, and cause them to rush out of the movie theatres with lust dripping from their eyes. Possibly Jannings was thinking of the beer back home, or had eaten too much breakfast, but in Ohio it was shameful, that look. Day in and day out the Ohio board toils and labours in this worthy fashion. From "Drums of Love," a very lovely D. W. Griffith production, they ordered : "Cut scenes showing hero in tight trousers bowing and standing at top of stairway. Cut view of him walking (still in tight trousers)." As the board never explains, 30