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 #:
000134
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 gallop through the corridors of his castle to see his mistress. The mistress was not cut — the story was unchanged — but the gallop could not go. It was funny. It was masculine. And the women and men of the Pennsylvania board resented it. Why must the censors pervert Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," Hardy's "Tess of the Durbervilles" and Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"? Miscegenation being taboo, we find a ban on "Othello" and "All God's Chillun Got Wings." The theme of prostitution in "Damaged Goods" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession" makes their production impossible on the screen though open to the theatre. Do the censors deny the existence of adultery, abortion, infidelity, bastardy and divorce? Why cannot the movies treat of divorce? A serious problem; in New York State alone it creates an annual crop of 12,000 criminals (since adultery, the sole ground for divorce, is also a crime). The movies are censored to a condition where sex attractions must remain sheer romance, with mating the result of only heavenly influences. Not even the censors can be88