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 #:
000188
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 other slight technical instruments that raise insignificant, if any, reasons for variation dependent on the multitude of customs of our different states. But there are still many who wish to standardize everything in the Nation. It was thus that the National Prohibition Law was established even for the dry lands. At this time, with our divorce laws in a horrible mess and resting on local hypocrisies it is urged that a National Law will cure the ills. But what would a National Law give us in such a field, the Reno provision of short residence and great concern for the nervous state of the wife, the New York statute resting solely on adultery or the Carolina Law which forbids divorce even in cases of insanity? Would we not standardize down to some stupid level and then find such national law irrevocable as in the case of Volsteadism? Such comparative collateral considerations should underlie any examination of a National Moving Picture Censorship Law, such as has been urged by the puritans and introduced into Congress. We must admit with Canon Chase, 138