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 #:
000209
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 URGE FOR GOOD instrument dealing with hundreds of other governmental exigencies. It had the separate isolated consideration of the people of the land. In fact, a long view of the annals of governments leads many historians to believe that aside from the theory of States Rights, that is, the existence of forty-eight separate experimental laboratories, this enunciation of Freedom is our greatest contribution to governmental history. But such victories as that of 1791 can never be held without constant vigilance. By 1836 serious attempts were made to give the Postmaster the right to censor the mails and to ban what he deemed injurious ; the abolitionist literature of the North was disseminating into the South ideas which the slave owners deemed "immoral, uneducational, harmful" and certainly far from "amusing." But Clay, Calhoun and Webster with the deciding vote of Vice President Van Buren kept us temporarily in our path of freedom and tolerance. Not for long. In 1868 we started on the breaking down of our Bill of Rights. It was then that Comstockery really started. 159