Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

“You Cannot Blue Pencil Morals” ( Continued from page 17) avalanche of bad pictures being produced year after year, and the small number of good ones. But what can they do? Nothing. In the face of the one powerful factor in the producer’s mind, which is making pictures that will sell, they are helpless. “You cant keep people from going to see pictures like ‘Flaming Youth.’ You cant keep the public away from a picture like ‘The Sheik.’ But if there were a few altruistic producers who would go ahead and make bad pictures and earn all the money they could, and then make a few good ones with the chance of a loss, you might be able to train the taste of the delinquent child by increasing the doses until the child will like the good pictures as much as it did the bad ones. “However, I suppose that is crying for the millennium,” and she laughed. The bright red comb which she wore in her hair fell down, and as she adjusted it, you felt the deep femininity she possessed despite her almost masculine mind and intelligence. I admired the comb. It was an unusual shaped one with large prongs spreading fan-like over her black hair. She wore a great many colored bracelets and as she moved her arms they clinked musically and awakened the dog. It looked up at her with a surprised expression as if to demand the reason for being disturbed, and she laughed again as she hugged the animal in her arms. “What do you think of the situation existing between authors and producers?” I asked, for she had stopped talking about the movies as if she had grown weary of the subject. “Ob, I dont know what to think,” she replied. “Of course I may be prejudiced. I liked two-thirds of the way they handled my ‘Humoresque,’ and I became physically ill after seeing how they had butchered ‘Star Dust.’ But I couldn’t do anything about it. 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