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 #:
000149
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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THE HEAVENLY INFLUENCE ness of speech or manner become a problem of the State? Are we unmindful of the Elizabethan drama and all of the classics that have become compulsory reading in high schools and colleges? Are the censors tyrannized by words and phrases? All of these trifles of possibly poor taste which the censors delete have no possible relation to "good" or "evil." Most of us desire a life of taste and fineness of feeling, but aren't we better off with untrammeled films, working out their own solution as a result of direct reflexions of audience reception rather than through an ineffective smoke screen established by office-holders and nineteen-year-old volunteer maiden assistants? Aren't the great state governments stultifying themselves when they engage in expurgating water bottles and commodes? Moreover, all of these attempts to purge the films of unlawfulness, sex, irreligion and bad taste are not only ineffective, but evoke dangerous reflexes from the audiences. If this is the level of taste to which the audience is directed by governmental mandate, obviously we have accepted officially a Gospel 99