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 #:
000218
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 genious and circuitous reasoning. But the Court found the way by relying not on the initial concept of our government but by admitting that court decisions are merely a confirmation of what the judges think is the common-sense of the community at that time. The Court said: "The argument is wrong or strained which extends the guaranties of free opinion and speech to the multitudinous shows which are advertised on the billboards of our cities. The judicial sense supporting the common-sense of the country is against the contention." Thus movies were held to have no relation to dissemination of thought or emotions. The court stamped the Films as a business, an industry, not connected with art or ideas. Mind you, they went so far as to carry this position into the realm of news reels, and captions. The movies, the courts held, were barren spectacles unrelated to "sentiments," for the Ohio Constitution, redeclaring our Federal Bill of Rights, stated that: "Every citizen may freely speak, 168