The Rise and Fall, of Free Speech in America (Classic Reprint)

By David Wark Griffith

Excerpt from The Rise and Fall, of Free Speech in America

But how is the moving picture art to express these great lessons of history, and convey the morals of the present day, contrasted with their attendant vices. If it is to be muzzled by a petty and narrow-minded censorship, a censorship which can see no valuable message in vice punished, a censorship which refuses to have life portrayed in its actuality, with its sins and virtues. Its joys and sadness. That we may learn the better way.

According to the theory of the censors. The moving picture producers must slavishly avoid the truth, for fear of treading on the toes of races. Politicians, and individuals. With a censorship board dictating what pictures are to be produced and displayed, truth is not to be pictured, but a sugar-coated, virtuously garbed version alone can be presented, in order to satisfy the public mentors of our so-called morals.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0259428507
• ISBN13: 9780259428503
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"