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 #:
00073
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 who could spend eight hours looking at twofor-a-nickel art magazines and then issue an order to burn a Raphael nude. He could read Elinor Glynn all night and then demand that Theodore Dreiser be put in solitary confinement. In other words, he is a man who has sought trash and suggestion in such low planes that he is no more fit to judge art, drama, literature or everyday ethics than the editor of a bankrupt tabloid newspaper. "Sunrise" was directed by Murnau, the Austrian who probably has been more responsible for putting the movie in its place and establishing it as an artistic medium worthy of respect than any other director in the world. The scene cut out in Maryland was brilliant and effective. It is not so much that this cut hurt a great movie, as that a really artistic piece of work, conceived and directed by an artist of note, was damaged by a group of people who had been spending eight hours a day in a stuffy projection room seeing mile after mile of comedies, and dull enervating Hollywood romances, until their brains were dulled into pronouncing it unfit for the citizens of Maryland. 39