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 #:
00072
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 and then moved over to the East Side and advertised "For Men Only." The point is, with a few deletions, the Maryland board passed this meretricious bit of sanctimonious pornography. At the same time the board ordered two scenes cut from "Sunrise"; "scene of woman and man reclining," and "scene of woman wriggling and dancing and man embracing her." Now if you were to take the brethren at their word the description "woman wriggling and dancing and man embracing her" would naturally cause you to visualize a couple of vaudeville "little Evas" trying to shimmy their way out of a Tia Juana bordello. Again, the mere deletion of two scenes does not seem such a fearful elimination. However, "Sunrise" is a movie worth fighting for. The man or woman who could look upon this movie and find even one scene dirty or suggestive is a man or woman who has been titillated too many times by drama such as "Fighting the White Slave Traffic." The critic who could pass "The White Slave Traffic" and then cut "Sunrise" is the type of man 38