The Picture Show Annual (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1928
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
The Picture Show Annual (1928)
Leaf #:
000148
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book, Global Cinema, and United Kingdom
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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136 Picture Show Annual CE.N JT<D UJPM D P Above: A scene from "Don Juan.'' Below: Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess in "Broken Blossoms." Whatever may be thought of the censorship of films some form of it is always likely to remain. Pictures have a power for evil greater even than that of the written word, since they can leave practically nothing to the imagination. The censors of films have to see, there- fore, that the latter do not exert the wrong influence or in any way offend the good taste of patrons. The important question of dress, for example, is one which receives strict attention. Scantiness of attire is not, as a rule, permitted in dan- cing and other scenes : but where it is occasionally essential for any- thing like the above, the scene is not given too long a projection, but is flashed on and off the screen. Censors object also to the colour line in pictures. That is, the love of a coloured man for a white woman or the reverse must not be shown. Mr. D. W. Griffiths " Broken Blossoms " originally violated this law. and because of protests the well-known producer had to seek a compromise by depicting the Chinaman as a young dreamer instead of a lover. Even then the por- trava! of the Chink s concern for a white girl was disliked by many European residents in the East.