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 #:
000219
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 write and publish his sentiments on all subjects" The owners of the industry had treated it merely as a business, unrelated to social effect, and the Court took this clue and declared that the movies were another area like the Post Offices where the free and open market in ideas no longer prevailed. It was no answer to the Court to point out that practically every state in the Union had Indecency Laws on the Statute books and that under such laws the showing of an illegal picture could be prosecuted in the courts before jurors. The Court went beyond the constitution and wiping out the Bill of Rights said Pre-Censorship of Movies would stand because people at that time did not want freedom of the movies. This arena which we have found from the time of Brothers Lumiere until 1922 carried unequal protagonists, packed audiences and indifferent defenders. Up to that time the tide was definite and running flood. When Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York State, signed the bill creating a Motion Picture Censorship Commission the liberty of movies seemed lost 169