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 #:
000213
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 the day. If the test of a constitution is the strain it can bear in tumultuous times our own experience of 1917-1918 is none too satisfactory. This era of suppressions and restrictions could not come to a dead halt on Armistice night. The gospel of war intolerance evidenced itself promptly in blue laws, anti-evolution laws, suppression of hundreds of books in Boston and elsewhere, banning of world classics by the Customs officials and padlocks on speakeasies. We became so censorious that these shores, long an asylum for political refugees, denied admittance to those beaten and tortured by foreign tyrants. Without a philosophy of freedom, with no training in the concepts of Jefferson and Franklin, how could we expect the movie owners to organize and present a united front against those worthies who declared that the film was a tree of knowledge, and that man should by law be prevented from eating the fruit? But who composed this army of forbidders! The blue noses were a few individuals falsely 163