Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scenario-writer who during the past 17 years has not written a censored scene or word would like TIME to inform its readers whether the Legion of Decency (whose creation, necessary or needless, he deplores) proposes to extend its boycott of all motion pictures as a punishment for the few admittedly objectionable ones to further fields in which decency is involved...
...frank display of contraceptives in the windows of a few; the boycott of all picture galleries and museums because of the nudes in some; and of all department stores on account of exciting underwear and wax models. If the statement of the producers is true that salacious motion pictures do attract the public, isn't it the fault of the churches in not stiffening the adolescent minds to automatically reject such stuff in boredom in the same way that we automatically ignore the excreta canis in our walks down the street...
...porch last week was that, as a direct result of the Legion of Decency's campaign, the producers' jury would be abolished. Henceforth Censor Breen's staff will be increased, his powers widened so that his edicts can be vetoed only by the directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. For any producer to assemble these gentlemen in executive session will be an expensive and lengthy...
...investigate Hollywood casting agencies. The investigation showed that: the agencies charged commissions as high as 60%; there were so many of them that aspirants for cinema jobs had a hard time keeping in touch with all; applicants were often cheated, mistreated, or subjected to improper offers. In 1926, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. started the Central Casting Corp. to interview applicants for jobs three days a week, assign welfare workers to minor applicants, charge no commissions. For general manager the corporation chose an unassuming young man named David Allen who had been running an agency...
Organized under the leadership of Most Rev. John Timothy McNicholas, Archbishop of Cincinnati, the Legion of Decency binds pledge-signers to "remain away from all motion pictures except those which do not offend decency and Christian morality." The Legion of Decency charges no dues, hence differs from Mrs. August Belmont's Motion Picture Research Council with which it is in full sympathy. Aiming at enlisting at least half the U. S. Catholic population of 20,000,000 as well as all Protestants and Jews who care to sign, the Legion last week claimed 2,000,000 members. In Saratoga...