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 #:
000193
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 ARGUMENT FOR THE PURE any person, creed or sect, or ridicule any clergyman. Since when are church and state reunited in this country? Why shouldn't we ridicule, if we feel like it, the clergy — as we do the flapper? And so does this lunatic measure read on and on for page after page. These $9000 a year censors must cut out anything "vulgar," or partaking of an improper "gesture" or "attitude." Our every motion is to be standardized. Were it not for the fact that the busybodies of the land are organized, the movie producers uncourageous and the balance of the public disorganized and disinterested, this kind of proposed legislation would be unworthy of comment. But we cannot be unmindful of the step which produced National Prohibition and the distress occasioned by the impress of a National Law on an un-nationalized people. A National moving picture censorship law would endeavour to develop a static civilization without variations in taste or thought, thus denying the wisdom portrayed by President Wilson when he declared that: "The function of all education was to make the 143