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 #:
000238
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 Radio Corporation and brother giants are in the movie business. Radio Pictures have purchased several big music houses, they have an interest in the Victor Talking Machine Company. Comes television, and the war is on! Television will cripple the movie companies just as the talking movies have crippled the theatre. It will cut down attendance, and force the movies to give entertainment better than that furnished by the air. The point is, one great control will be able to colour news, opinion and politics before it reaches the great mass of people. If there comes a war, who will tell us the truth? We haven't yet learned what the shooting was about in 1917. We'll be called upon to polish up the muskets and start all over again — and one great giant will have the power to say over the air, in the theatre, "yes" or "no." If you have regarded the censor, the Club Woman, and Hays, the press agent, isolated and unimportant influences in our national life, now, perhaps, you can see a design and symmetry moulded by economic circumstances. The puritanical zeal of the censor, the money 188