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 #:
00087
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 You could almost picture the Chairman of the Kansas board of movie censors without using her portrait. She is a real Kansan, and has never lived out of her state. She was born in Crawford county, and lived there all her life before she went to Kansas City to take up her greatest work. Miss Emma Viets, of Girard, Kansas. Fifty or more. Former owner of the movie theatre of Girard, Kansas, where she could observe the reactions of the coal miners and foreigners who predominated in her home town. In 1919 she sold the theatre and moved to Kansas City, having been appointed a member of the censor board. In 1922 she was named chairman of the board, and will continue as such until 1932. Two other women help her, but Miss Viets, by experience and knowledge, is the real dictator of the board. She is willing to talk about her work. "It is necessary to cut many movies," says Miss Viets. "It is incredible how much that is questionable can be insinuated into an otherwise innocent and interesting picture. Needlessly insinuated, for in most places it destroys the 49