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 #:
000228
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 ing the movie factory. If that factory was unrelated to politics, war, or even news, we could dismiss the cloud and say "it is not important." But the foremen of that factory have brothers and cousins in charge of machinery that runs our modern world. We cannot indict this group of men personally. If they were ghouls, train robbers, cannibals— then we could dramatize them, and dismiss their machine. But they are not sheer black. They are merely control-men; sublimating their personalities to run machines fed by a public with which they have no contact, and about which they know but little. The movie is one of the biggest engines. They are using it to run things once considered individual property. The Talkies You may curse the groanings of the talkies or you may consider them the advent of an art as potential as Gutenberg's awkward press. Whatever the opinion of the public the producers regard them as movies. They have not 178