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 #:
000132
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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PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MOVIE Number Percent of Total Items involving crime 1672 56.4% Items involving sex 872 29.5% Items involving taste 348 11.8% Items involving the government 49 1.7% Items involving religion 16 .6% Of course, this kind of itemization is worth very little because who can tell whether "cruelty" (category classification number 3), relates to sex crime ; and whether a portrayal of suicide (Number 1 A) is considered a reflection on the poverty allowed by our government, a sexual inversion or a criminal act. We defy you to find any group of real men and women in the world who would consider these standards of morality as anything but a burlesque list of prohibitions. Pick up any magazine, any newspaper, any novel, and cut it according to these rules. Even half the advertisements would be cut! The censor pictures a world of ladies and gentlemen dammed by "Elsie Dinsmore" and sired by "Lord Fauntleroy." He cuts to hold his job — and in the whole preceding chapter not one cut showed the hand of consistency. 86