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 #:
000211
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 of the land are suffering from the same undemocratic fallacies, elucidated by thousands of judge-made injunctions restraining the organization of unions and the right to cooperate to raise the standards of life. This was the mood of our law "givers" when the brothers Lumiere, toward the close of the 19th Century, perfected the motion picture camera. It was then considered an amusing toy — only a hundred yards could be taken at a sitting. The old bioscope was a feeble thing to fight a censorship which already controlled the Post Office, and against which the workers of the land in the then industrial struggles were impotent. Movies of Broncho Billy and the original Western thrillers cost trifling sums to create. Even in 1920 the cost of a picture was less than $150,000, whereas now the major productions run over a million dollars a piece. It was natural that the censors in the community would, as usual, attack the young, the new and the weak. Every new art of expression is a dangerous influence against conservative society. 161