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 #:
00082
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 straight, or counted box cars until you were blind, or read "Peter Rabbit" to your nephew until you were dithering, but next to keeping score for a billiard tournament you could not imagine a more enervating task than prying into the actions of the Kansas state board of motion picture censors. While it religiously strikes down any attempts at luring the dry Kansans to crave drink or the sight of an exposed female leg, the Kansas board betrays several interesting idiosyncracies all its own. In "Captain Swagger," "Sadie Thompson," "Cloud Dodgers" and "Marked Money," "Women They Talk About" and almost a hundred other movies — said the Kansas censors: "Strike out scene showing character thumbing nose." In "Manhattan Cocktail" they ordered: "A reduction of struggle between lovers, leaving but one scene on couch." In Kansas love is not immoral by commitment; but by repetition. In "Our Dancing Daughters" they ordered the following deletions : "Cut out scenes of Ben kissing Diana, and following scene showing them on ground in reclining position. Also 46