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 #:
000106
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 fice, the intensity and the dignity portrayed in every scene in "The Patriot." If it was a suggestive movie, then no celluloid would ever unwind in Pennsylvania. But the very earnestness, the very reality of the shadowy figures in this movie worried the censors — so they cut and cut — and ruined some of the greatest scenes. They emasculated a piece of art acknowledged as such by a hundred civilized commentators. They refused scenes to their tax-payers witnessed by citizens of every other state in the union. And the eliminations demanded from this superb work are typical of the slashes made in movies in Pennsylvania. They accept no standards created by art, literature, drama, or even other censor boards. They work with a fury and an inconsistency that offer no clue as to what cause they purport to serve. The members of the Pennsylvania State Board are as mysterious as their code of morals. The law giving them their existence was passed in 1911. According to the statute: "The Pennsylvania State Board of Censors shall con 64