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 #:
000144
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 And this prim regard for state is carried over to cloak the church. Many of the deletions arise from a desire to shield the dominant religious groups and the leading national minorities from insult or criticism. Suppose a writer created a theme involving the effectiveness of the confessional as practised by the Roman Catholic Church, or the conversion of portions of the Methodist Church into lobbyists, or the relations of the Baptists to the theory that man sprang from monkey instead of mud? No such theme has ever been allowed on the screen. Whereas no one welcomes needless or cruel attacks on any group in the community, nevertheless we see no warrant even in law for the censors to set themselves up as the high priests of religious impartiality. Surely they are just meddling when they order that no clergymen may be shown attending the funeral of a crook, as they did in "The Racket," for even the lowest of us is presumed to be welcomed at his death by some God. In "Potemkin" they banned a picture of Lenin's tomb bearing the inscription "Religion is the opiate of the People," igno 96