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 #:
00090
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 more capable of arranging art and drama for her fellow-citizens than an Oxford graduate. Of all the state censors, Miss Viets seems peculiarly fitted to give her tax-payers what they want, and what they deserve. The Saints of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania has the distinction at the present time of supporting the most arbitrary and severe board of censors known to the history of that state. Not since the Quakers drove Penn's governors out of the city of brotherly love has a body of people so severely protected the public morals. No censor board in the country can compete with the Pennsylvanians. Movies that go untouched in every other state in the union are hacked and retitled in Pennsylvania; movies that are slightly touched by the other boards are cut to pieces, resulting in enormous expense for movie companies and inanity for the public. No political power or pressure from the Hays office has served to break down the severity of this state board. Each board has betrayed its own peculiar 52