Censored : the private life of the movie (1930)

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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 #:
000105
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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THE SAINTS AT WORK bewildered as to what has motivated that childlike brain, until he suddenly brings up sharp before a great door — and enters his mistress' bedroom. It is a real Rabelaisian scene, good for a bellylaugh in any civilized audience. The machinations of that diseased brain, the pathetic simplicity, the dangerous madness — all are incorporated in that one swift, hilarious moment, yet Pennsylvania would not let you see him running through the corridor! You may see a madman, but you may not laugh ; you may fornicate, but you may not run to it, in Pennsylvania. There are three more paragraphs of eliminations demanded by the board, all of them being scenes between the Csar and Phalen's mistress, or between Phalen and his mistress. Now these scenes were not inserted for the sake of the semi-eroticism they contain, as a thousand movies contain, and are allowed to pass into Pennsylvania by the board, but they served to show the limits to which Phalen would go for the sake of his country, for the sake of doing away with his friend the Csar. No child could have misunderstood the sacri 63