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 #:
000199
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 tures for children — the possibilities of which must delight every parent and teacher. But in addition to that high hope the counterpart of that type of protection for children spells freedom of the art for adults. The cry for censorship then should end ; surely no one ever met an adult who declared that he wanted some other adult to act as his censor. With the children saved we need no politicians to worry about saving our souls. Now, censors — because of the absence of child-movie controls, must cut their celluloid to fit the lowest intelligence test. With this child audience as an objective, is it any wonder that the movies — aside from mechanical development — have stood still? Scenarios still portray right as being the opposite of wrong. The movies deal with Good and Evil as parallel lines that never meet. Mr. Hays himself has spoken as the oracle of this unreality — "There is no difference of opinion among decent people as to what is right and what is wrong in motion pictures or in anything else. 149