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 #:
000100
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 otherwise they would have rejected the entire movie. From "Freedom of the Press" they cut note reading: "You and your dirty sheet lay off. Remember the Canton, Ohio case and the murder of Dan Mellet." It is impossible to understand the reason for this cut. Every paper in the country demanded the apprehension of the murderers of Mellet, the Canton, Ohio editor who fought the underworld so savagely it exterminated him. You could not give undue publicity to the memory of such a man. Any newspaper reader in any city in the country read something of the case. Yet it could not be mentioned in a movie in the state of Pennsylvania, in the cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, et al. But try to understand any of these cuts. They ordered a caption in "Her Cardboard Lover" reading: "I told her you were sick in bed with a nurse and she said that was when you needed her most" changed to read : "I told her you were sick in bed and she said that was when you needed her most." In "Beware of Bachelors" they found the caption: "Do you think this bed is big enough 58