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 #:
000201
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 must create embarrassments in real life, where the facts involving any decision or any act are never all on one side of the argument. Surely Hamilton's sexual indiscretions do not damn him in toto, any more than Washington's love for rum or Jefferson's ownership of slaves made them villains. In their zeal to make life simple for the child audience, the producers, bending the knee to the censors, have created fantastic characters, living in realistic settings but untrue to real flesh and blood. Crime, lust and dishonesty are always in evidence as counterparts to virtue, asceticism and integrity. The censors reject the essence of true living, clinging to a tattered philosophy of free will. They wish the audience to be schooled in the belief that each one of us by Will Power alone can lead the "Good Life." What a despicable view of living! By its measure every case of the fall of man from his highest ambitions is due to isolated, unadulterated Will Power. Such a creed is nearly as vicious as the outworn dogma of Fatalism, which going to the other extreme indicates the absence of Will Power, and predi 151