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 #:
000154
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 whose husband is a Brooklyn chemist, sees no harm in the movie. Poison is hard to buy and easy to trace. If a husband is going to kill his mate, a poison scene in a movie wouldn't give him any new ideas, says Mr. Schultz. Mrs. Parton, (who left her children with a neighbour in the Bronx) sees no harm in the movie under consideration, but she thinks the opening scene is inartistic. Hot goes the debate. Luncheon-time, and the women decide that, after all, the movie is harmless. The following afternoon the movie appears before a matinee audience of salesmen, shoppers, tourists and chorus boys with the respectable insignia "Passed By the National Board of Review." In 1909 the People's Institute organized the National Board of Review. A political campaign threatened to wipe out the new nickelodeons. One of them was showing "The Great Thaw Trial." A publicity-hungry mayor ordered all movie houses closed. The stage managers were for it, the ministers wanted it — 104