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 #:
000142
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 in Connecticut, and we can imagine the distress of the early 19th Century censor at the sight of ladies' tresses. Conscription of men for war was illegal, and that practice, followed in 1917, would have been barred as an epitomy of illegal governmental tyranny. But possibly the movie censors appointed by the Crown would have been loyal to Great Britain and thus there would have been censored out of the movies all of the revolutionary spirit of the American patriots. At a later day when our country was part free and part slave, the Hays of the Civil War no doubt could have arranged for non-partisanship and the Lincoln-Douglas debate could never have reached the talkies, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" would have found no counterpart in the screen. Thus censorship might have operated in past eras, even though today some of the state boards have declared that these early developments of our national life are "so sacred that no scenario may treat historical events in a humorous manner." If the movie censor could suppress the daily 94