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 #:
000198
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 without restriction enough tabloid sadism and sexual perversion to fill up all his night dreams and day fantasies. Nigh-nudity — if that's a danger — is on the beaches for the adolescent — in flesh and life, and not only in one dimension on a flat screen. Our modern attitude has abandoned the former psychology of national silence and taboo. Rather do we build up a next generation fully informed ; not merely coated with half truths that create sordid curiosities. Surely the unreality of the screens, as censored, surely the evasions practised to meet the censors, create situations leading to sneaky whispers among unliberated children. It is like showing children a picture of the human body with the genital organs removed ! Abroad, children are prohibited from attending performances unless special provisions have been made for showing specially selected pictures in special theatres, chosen because of safety. Such a course has at least the warranties of an underlying scheme. Under such a policy producers in time may develop special pic 148