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Categorical description of deletions enforced by the Division of Motion Pictures of the New York Department of Education for the fifteen month period beginning January 1, 1932 and ending March 31, 1933.
Censorship Categories
Applied in connection with "feature" films
Applied in with
connection shorts"
Totals
Dialogue
Scene
Dialogue
Scene
Sex:
Sex, general Nudity Language Slang
667 00 15 19
308
134
9
00
11
00
00
1
24
75
3
00
1010 209
27 20
Crime:
Technique Reward References Poison
96 42 13 00
123 80 00
24
1 7 1 0
28
8
00
17
248
137
14
14
Violence:
Human
Animals
139 00
494 65
22 00
46 00
701 65
Government:
United States Foreign
72 19
50 00
1
00
00 00
123 19
Religion:
25
1
00
00
26
Unclassified:
15
4
10
00
29
Totals:
1122
1292
54
201
2669
For those who are statistically-minded, the above chart may be further summarized by stating that approximately 44% of the censor's deletions have to do with Sex, 16% with Crime, 29% with Violence, 5% with Government, and 3% with Religion. These five categories of the censors need now to be re-interpreted in terms of their presumed effect upon public behavior. The daily press, patently, publishes items concerning these subjects, since our conception of "news" centers largely at these points. But the censors assume that these are the areas of primary moral danger. We may allow them to speak for themselves in terms of formal language:
"No motion picture will be licensed or a permit granted for its exhibition within the State of New York, which may be classified, or any part thereof, as obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, sacrilegious, or which is of such character that its exhibition would tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime." * The first five terms of this rule are presumed to be objective standards according to which works of art or dramatic exhibitions may be judged; the last
Regents Rules 244, based upon the Education Law, Chapter 153, Section 1082.