THE MOVIE INDUSTRY
LOW /ESTHETIC LEVEL CHARLES CHAPLIN’S VIEWS LONDON, Oct. 10. The chief fault of the kinema today, in the opinion of Charles Chaplin. is its low aesthetic level. In a preface to " Movies tot the Million," by Gilbert Seldes (published by Batsford), Chaplin says that the movie industry has, artistically, many obstacles to overcome. Films are burdened, he says, by a specially imposed censorship, which denies the right to dwell on many issues of the day. “ Under normal conditions of censorship,” he says, “ a film play with the boy-rneets-girl theme has quite a task in competing for realism with a film news-weekly, with its assassination of a king, a tragic accident to a Zeppelin, or the graphic accomplishments of Lindbergh “To-day. in this kaleidoscopic turmoil of fast and furious events, when cause and effect art bringing to* light a more realistic view of human affairs, a film nlay must ignore vital issues and deal only with such subject matter as a child would read in a rhyming book ”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23332, 26 October 1937, Page 9
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