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 #:
000200
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 All the world over men's minds are much alike." Is it any wonder that "the American film has served," as John Gould Fletcher in the Crisis of the Film has said, "as propaganda for the emotional monotony, the naive morality, the sham luxury, the haphazard etiquette and the grotesque exaggeration of the comic, the sentimental and the acrobatic that are so common in the United States." It may well be as many educators contend, that movies cannot hurt children and can only act as an escape from drabness. In fact, Dr. Blanchard of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic testifies that — "Numerous studies made by scientists have failed to establish any appreciable contribution to delinquency from motion pictures but we do find the motion pictures to be helpful in many ways." But how about the adult — must he continue to be fed pictures with morals only in black and white? What can be more untrue to life? Where in real life do we meet the movie type of problem — clear cut, with undiluted good or bad? To feed adults on such falsity surely 150