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 #:
000109
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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THE SAINTS AT WORK The Saints of New York The New York board of movie censors is the most important and the second most severe in the country. It is important in that New York City must abide by its decisions. Plays that run for years on the stage are cut to pieces when they reach movie form. You have seen what happened to "Coquette," "Rain" and the many other successful and unharmed plays when the producers tried to convert them into movies. Even though they humble themselves to the extent of going to the censors and asking them if it will be "all right" to make a movie of this or that play, after the movie comes out the censors frequently suffer conscience pangs, and decide that the citizens of Soddus Center might object, and cut the movie. Where Pennsylvania is worried about sex, New York bites its nails over corruption. Political job-holders themselves, the New York board very logically refuses to allow any ugly 67