Close Up (Jan-Jun 1929)

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CLOSE UP feared in a world of weaklings, only intellect shunned in a world of stupidity. The day will come — and it is nearer than we think — when, thanks to the cinema, the whole human race will be able to realise its forces. The screen then will be able to give us the satisfaction and joy to which we have a right, and which are the very raison d'etre for its existence. In that day the censorship may well tremble before the cinema, as we now do before a good film that is mutilated or banned. Jean Lenauer. A LETTER ON CENSORSHIP Berlin, Mid-January, Dear Mr. Macpherson, You wrote to me over four weeks ago that the February issue of Close Up would be mainly a censorship protest number. I am not surprised that we are sometimes forced to make some stand against it. Such a time seems to have arrived again. In England, France and Germany also, the censors of late have acted in a way that seems ridiculous ; at any rate conspicuous. In England, France and Germany also, there is a growth of demonstrations to bring to light the mistakes of practical censorship in particular, and in general the unworthiness of the very theory of censorship. 56