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 #:
000214
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 claiming to represent all the people of the land. Women's Clubs, Home Study Clubs, Get Together Clubs, Literary Societies, Law and Order Societies, Federations of Church Women, Missionary Societies, Daughters of the American Revolution — forgetting their ancestry— joined in a crusade. This was to be expected. The industrial machine age had removed the housewife from her homely duties. Weaving went into the mills and food producing into the canning factories. War had given them new corpuscles. The only outlet for women was reforming. Their creative libidos, their zeal for control, turned to the control of mankind in general, which included the saving of souls by movie censorship. These leaders of organizations claimed to speak for thousands and tens of thousands. James N. Rosenberg, in an address to the Bar Association of the City of New York, in 1926, presented an incisive picture of these casually appointed spokesmen of the land. "Mrs. Bowley represented fifty mothers; Mrs. Hart 40,000 members of religious organizations." 164