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 #:
00088
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:
June 20, 2024
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PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MOVIE continuity of the story and has no bearing on the plot, "Sometimes something intangible will give a twist to a picture that brings it close to the borderline of rejection. Such things as the ending of the beautiful picture "Sorrell and Son" for instance. I advised cutting out the ending where the son administers the overdose of poison to his father. "From a humanitarian point of view it may have been all right. But it was ethically wrong. Physicians felt uncomfortable about it. (She gave no instance of a physician objecting). It opened up new vistas of thought and speculation. The film was long anyway and could stand cutting. It now ends where the father sinks down at the garden gate among his roses, his work of fathering finished. It is more artistic, deeper in pathos, less shocking in many minds. "It is our job to help the moving picture fulfill its avowed purpose — to amuse the public in a clean wholesome way. "I often go to the motion pictures in the evening," concludes Miss Viets, rocking quietly in her modest room in the Grand Hotel. "For SO