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 #:
000225
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 PLAY'S THE THING Duke Sforza, a Francis the First. He is a commoner, a stockholder, a clerk responsible only to directors. Movie control is being unified. The companies taking charge are, compared to the old patron, lifeless, inorganic machines. Not one man, two men, or a dozen are buying work for themselves. They are hiring men to turn out a sales item. And if censorship means more sales, and, incidentally, cheaper, childish movies, they are for censorship. We cannot confine ourselves to the old values of the true critic. Economics and politics have scattered them to the winds. We must employ economics as well as criticism to determine the potentialities of the American movie. Cause : the clumsy child of organization, the corporation. We have two serious and possible effects : ( 1 ) the return of pre-censorship for the stage: (2) the death of political opinion and the right of free speech. The United States has become a body of corporations surrounded by land. In 1911 the movies consisted of a dinky projection machine and a handful of nervous fur workers. In or 175