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 #:
000121
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 alone are not to blame for the vapid and vulgar condition of the ordinary movie, they have the only legal power of repression in the business. They themselves are not big men and women. It is humiliating to think that by a peculiar circumstance, they have been given the right to tell us what we can see and hear. If they were willing to admit that their job is as hopeless as we have shown, we could feel some sympathy for them. But, they like their work. They refuse to discuss it with prying reporters. They belong to the sequestered saintly. And they are not brilliant people. Misfits. Lawyers, doctors, and writers who failed to make good. After all, it is not an honourable job. It isn't something to boast about before a group of real men and women. And so they shut themselves up, they deny their futility, and they cling grimly to the once unimportant paragraph of legal phraseology that gives them a more arbitrary power over America's mass entertainment than the constitution allows its President. It is the law, and not the personal genius 77