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 #:
000204
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 Although the vitality of this current era is renovating our previous concepts of religion, nevertheless the present urges of mankind, conscious or subconscious, are still traceable to what might genetically be termed a biblical background. And if we turn to Genesis we find that the third act of God in relation to Man was a mandate of Censorship. The first act was the formation of man, the second was to put the man into the Garden of Eden and the third reads : "And the Lord God commanded the man saying 'Of every tree of the Garden thou mayest freely eat: " 'But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.' " This mandate against treating life as a great experience and a thrilling accumulation of experiments was no doubt inspired by those ancient Hebrew authors who suffered from a supreme human failing — a yearning for the status quo. Man, it seems, in his mad obsession for power over others, has always feared 154