The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-06
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BY LENS

Further selections from What
Shocked the Censors" from January,
1882, TO March, 1923:
afraid to Eliminate: zig,
I want you to know that we appre-
ciste this little party you're throwing
for us tonight" mayor thanking
criminaD. Amateur Day"-Elimin-
ate close views of beating Of jim
where whip actually comes in contact
with mans body. Behind jury
Dcors"-Eliminate I'm going to
tell them how you paid me good
dough TO influence that jury" 'The
Big Cage Eliminate views Of tigers
tearing body to pieces '"Thc Big
Driye"-Eiiminate views of hand-to-
hand conflict between soldiers where
they are fighting for their very lives,
actually killing one another
siberian Patrol" Soviet film
Long live the Soviet power in the
entire verdi" Eliminate as n to
sit on our necks, the capitalists and
the landowners. That is what they
need--our land, our bread, the fac
tories, the plants, the forests, the oil
that's what they need. viii we,
Red pa-tisans, be afraid? No." Con
Guerors" Eliminate all views of
Frances body conyulsed with labor
pains.
Harlem Is Heaven'-"Here intel
lectua,s minG,e with ilIiterates-
preachers and prostitutes pound the
same pavements." Hollywood after
DarI"-Rejected in toto. 81 Am a
Fugitive From Chain Gang"-Elim-
mate entire Foreword, reading in
part: MY brother, Pobsrt E. Burns,
is now q fugitive from a chain gang.
He has been branded a convict
=. and That makes him a hunted
thing on earth. -. The scenes in II
Am Fugitive which depict
life In chain gang, are true and
authentic, being based upon my
brothers experiences" Rev. v. Il.
Burns, Palisades, N. j.
Impatient Maiden"-Eliminat all
distinct views of ether cone over pa
1 TENTS face, and ether being admin
iste"ed to patient. Last Mile"--"All
right this is my duty-to show the
world that l don't like ito show
the world that object to It. Do you
think I wanta die? You think I'm
not human being? You think /
cont wanna live? You think it's
very nice to wait in that rotten cell
etc" Laughter in HeIl"-E i'm
mate scenes of guards striking at
prisoners in cage with whip. Elim-
mate all scenes of preparations fo7
execution of Negro prisoners and all
views of feet and bellies hanging
after execution. (My emphasis
Lens.
'MoSthpiece"-Tn march to execu-
ton, eliminate all views where boy
is shown falteiing on way to execu-
ton. Eliminate view of man actually
turning on current to electrocute boy,
and views Of man turning indicator
to increase current in electrocut.on.
Might Beat"-"What you rsed in
dis country is da heeg Muzsolini."
Oats it--Mu55olini-Ge out or get
shot. Only Mussolini gives EN- cas-
! tor oil, too" "aed and White" So
Wet film: Eliminate all views of
officer giving orders to fire on peas
ants, and all scenes OF execution.
Aside from these selected cuts,
reading What Shocked the Censors"
is like wading knee-deep in a sewage
Of sexual obscenities, murders and
idiotic dialogue. The pamphlet was
published by the National Council
On Freedom From Censorship, Or
gan!zed two years ago by the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union, which be-
lieves that we should flight all forms
of bureaucratic censorship, leaving
the sole control to prosecution with
trial by jury It's just a question
with them as to which agency OF the
ruling class shall filter and make
safe the hurriediy concocted Holly
wood ribbons. They happen TO pre-
fer the capitalist court to the secret
chambers Of the State Censorship
Boards. And this brings us to a
question SO important that we will
not permit space lini, 2 ions to make
us discuss it merely in passing"
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