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 #:
000234
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 The same month, Eamon De Valera was barred from delivering an address by KOA Denver, Colorado (General Electric), because members of the station's censorship committee decided at the last moment that part of his speech contained "propaganda against the British government." April 20, 1927, Jed Harris, producer of "Spread Eagle" (a vigorous drama of the fermentation of a Latin-American revolution) was invited to speak over the air by WEAF and then excluded because of objections from the American Legion and other organizations. Hudson Maxim, talking against prohibition, was allowed to talk into a naked microphone. It was cut off unbeknown to him. In Springfield, a professor from Smith College, speaking on the foreign policies attitude of this nation toward the Near East, came to the station with his speech and the broadcasting company said "you must cut out the last two paragraphs and insert these two which we have written." Editor Kaltenborn, representing a conservative Brooklyn newspaper supporting the Re184