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 #:
000180
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 the mind of a child, toward that clean and virgin thing, that unmarked slate — we must have toward that the same responsibility, the same care about the impression made upon it, that the most inspired teacher of youth would have on it." Again, he postulated a movie rule. "We must protect the morons and see movies" . . . and concluded by saying that "the motion picture is the epitome of civilization." Certainly the history of the movie would indicate that it has been made for morons and youths. However, the urge of the present power of the movies has taken Hays away from the actual business of censoring movies, and seeing that his clients stay in line. He has a shrewd and clever office force that does this work with a tongue-in-the-cheek attitude. Hays himself is really a corporation press agent. Once that was a simple business. Today it connotes all the guile of an international diplomatic service. When Hays first started his barrage of purity broadsides he had one job : to cool the fires of the righteous. That job inevitably devel 130