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 #:
000192
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 tains unnecessarily prolonged expressions of passionate love. Here then we will have to install a meter with a sex voltage test. Such National censorship would spell only corruption and nullification. Do we want to start bootleggers of movies? But these vice hunters are eager and bitter. Their proposed law provides that gambling cannot be shown if attractive, and the stories and scenes must be so constructed that even the morally feeble "may not receive an emphasis on crime." Thus all adults are to be censored to the level of the feeble-minded. No tyrant of past ages ever tried to go so far. But that is not all. We may not ridicule or deprecate public officials. This is nothing but a tyrant's creed. Who are these officials but our servants? Haven't we increased the public corruption of this era by failing promptly to criticize and deprecate our Fallses and Forbeses and ridicule our drinking but dryvoting Senators? Good government rests in part on the right to ridicule unfaithful governors. The next paragraph of the act prevents anything which may offend the religious belief of 142