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 #:
000127
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 HEAVENLY INFLUENCE accorded, if only the crook is always caught and punished. He must never escape. The erring wife must suffer, the husband may not have an isolated jag; nothing short of a gutter sot satisfies the censor. Thus does he imagine that the audiences will become virtuous by precept and example. The erring wife may, in scenes up to the final debacle, appear as a happy soul, the drinking husband as a comic imbiber, and the thief as a gifted and clever navigator. But some censors lack full faith in the belief that the audiences will subscribe whole-heartedly to the adage that the penalty of sin is suffering. Possibly the censors know too well the unreality of such hypothesis. In such moods they still force the theme to be so clear that we can detect the villain from the start by his smirks and the heroine by her smocks. In addition they watch each scene and caption to make sure that sympathy shall never flow to him who in the end is ruined. Possibly they fear that we of the audience may decide to purchase some such temporary joys, figuring out our own odds on getting caught. Maybe we believe that life, as lived at present, does 81