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 #:
000148
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 This ultra sensitivity to religion is paralleled by a desire for non-partisanship to national groups — at least the politically important ones. Our censors some day may ban Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado" from the screen just as the English censor did from the stage, out of deference to a Japanese Ambassador. But these desires to be delicate with national feelings do not apply to Turks, Bulgarians, Liberians or others who have no vote. The negro can still be called "nigger," the Chinese "opium sniffers" and the Nicaraguan patriots "bandits." But if you think the censors are far afield in this kind of interference you certainly must think them mad when you read the endless stories of censorship of mere matters of taste. If States change gradually, if religions pass through reforms, if nationalism rises and falls, if crimes are ever changing, certainly little mannerisms are so volatile as to be beyond human grasp. But to the censors Hell must be spelled H , as if that kind of childishness fools anyone. We defy the censors to fill in the three blank spaces to form any other word that makes sense. Since when did robustious 98