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 #:
000246
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 say, "To hell with the public." The new corporation whispers, "God bless the public." We are just boys and girls together, working for the Great Good. We could even submit to financial bureaucracy if it would let us make our own wars, and have fun in our own way. But when they give us ready-made Gods, fresh from the factory, and antiseptic, ready-made recreation, it is time to start throwing things and to exercise the Elizabethan prerogative of flogging ham actors. Humourless and dull, the power man and the censor join in trying to persuade us that George Washington was a cleric, Thomas Jefferson a Methodist and Warren G. Harding a priest. It isn't good enough, gentlemen. Starting with Emma Viets and concluding with the board of directors of the Radio Corporation of America, we have a Utopia of moral and political beneficence set up and imposed upon a citizenry who do not deserve it, who do not belong in it. We have dropped a curtain upon the Eighteenth Century scene of America. It seems to have no connection with the present farce. 196