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 #:
000202
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 cates all our steps and missteps on a Power in the Stars or Heavens. Are we not ready for acceptance of the life of determinism? Are we not agreed that life itself, with its inescapable heredity and environment enmeshes us all at times beyond the powers of Free Will, or the holocausts of Heavenly Fatalisms? Do not the great dramas of life involve the suffering and frustration of human beings through no immediate fault of their own? Must the movies deny that life crowds us all, and that even the Censors — pleasant fellows at times — are only yearners for power and seekers of smut, because of hereditary or early environmental influences? Censorship of the films twists the movies to meet the child's simple chart of life. To bring up adults on such distortions is to cripple emotionally the entire population. 152