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Record #1129
- Date:
- 14/03/1935
- Record Type:
- Correspondence
- From/By:
- Dr Worth Tippy
- To:
- Martin Quigley, President of Quigley Publishing Co., Inc, Exhibitors' Herald and Motion Picture World
- Reel:
- Reel 11
- Frame Start:
- 11-0413
- Frame End:
- 11-0421
- Legacy ID:
- 1139
- Legacy Year:
- 1935
- Legacy Index:
- Production Code
- Comments:
- Additional text in Transcription. EDITORIAL COMMENT: This correspondence states a liberal Protestant view of the moral issues involved, and demonstrates quite how distant that was from the concerns both of the Catholics and of the industry -- to the point where Milliken refuses to acknowledge that Tippy represents any significant group viewpoint -- which means any significant viewpoint. Note Tippy's comment on the Code's concern with individual morality, which Milliken turns into a claim that the industry should be making other sorts of films. The distinction between Catholic and Protestant positions over trade practices has already become ossified here, too.
According to Worth M. Tippy of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCCCA), "the self-censorship at Hollywood is largely an affair between the Catholic Church and the industry," and it is too conservative. Milliken points out to Quigley that the Legion of Decency campaign was successful because "its leaders wisely refused to be beguiled into attacks upon the trade practices and criticism of the machinery of the industry," concentrating instead on moral issues.
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- Legion of Decency
- MPPDA (Production Code Administration (PCA))
- National Board of Review
- National Catholic Welfare Council
- New York Times
- Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America
- American Social Hygiene Association