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 #:
000210
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 From that time on the Post Office has increasingly become a negation of the spirit of Benjamin Franklin — the first Postmaster General of the United States. This letting down of the bars was induced in part by the accepted idea that ordinary criminal statutes against indecency were unenforceable. The machinery of justice functioned only after great delays, and juries would not stand for curtailments of liberty of the mails, which a single censor in Washington could order by his solitary mandate. The American people more and more have fallen into the easy acceptance of pre-censorship ; stopping ideas in advance of publication rather than submitting to the constitutional right of court procedure. The inability of prosecutors to obtain convictions under the Volstead law led to padlocks — a form of law by injunctions, a method of penalty without trial by jury, a system of censorship by judges rather than convictions by juries. To defeat the will of the people, as enunciated by juries of the common run of men, those in power always have turned to control by one man censorship. The workers 160