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 #:
000195
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 Hays estimates that 8% of the urban audiences are children. Forty states have no regulation whatsoever. Children unaccompanied may witness any picture any time of day or night without restriction. Only two states have really definite statutes — New York and New Jersey, where children under sixteen may only go to movies if accompanied by parent, guardian or authorized adult. Six other states, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Michigan and Mississippi, prohibit admission of minors during school hours and after certain hours in the evening. Thus we see that practically outside of New England children are not dealt with separately by the states, but it is assumed that the parents have the prime right to control the destinies of their own offspring. The six states with partial regulation apparently are concerned solely with problems of truancy, or as in Oregon provide a sort of curfew movie law for children — 9 o'clock in the winter, 10 o'clock in the summer. In these states the age limits vary from ten in Mississippi to sixteen for girls and fourteen for boys in Connecticut. 145