Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Los Angeles : End Poverty League
Volume:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Leaf #:
000120
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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116 SODOM AND GOMORRAH in the course of this diversion is another thing. The motion picture is potentially the greatest existing instrument civilization possesses for the diffusion of art and culture among the masses. Society has the right to demand that, if not the lives of its creators be clean, at least their filth be not allowed to pollute their product. The quality of a film depends directly upon four groups of people. Most important are the producers, for they control the money, the fountainhead of power in every organization. The other important groups are writers, directors, and actors. Any one of these groups could influence the cinema for the better, if it wished. But from top to bottom the wrong people are in control. To start with, many of the producers are either immoral individuals themselves, or else they have no sense of moral responsibility. One of the most perfect examples of what is the matter with the motion picture industry, morally, is a certain picture producing company that releases through Warner Brothers Company. This producing unit is owned by a great publisher, who has his finger in the picture business from several different angles. This gentleman is supposed to be an advocate of 100% Americanism. Possibly he has never heard that, while complacently displacing one's wife with a mistress may be an old Chinese custom, it is scarcely an American tradition.