Does Münsterberg's Chapter XI take a position on censorship, and what does it say about how crime and vice may be shown?
1916 argument, unmeasured. The word 'censor' occurs twice in the whole pinned book, both in one Chapter XI paragraph, and both report what producers think: some companies 'welcome censorship' if it is high-minded and liberal, and most seem doubtful about Federal censorship. Münsterberg states no vote of his own in those sentences. His own stated position is about treatment, not a rule: a villain punished in the last reel does not undo glamorous vice, a play should not be a dramatized sermon, and if a 'moral atmosphere' pervades the whole screen world then no crime is barred from frank telling. No board, statute, list or age rule is named.
1916 argument, unmeasured. The word 'censor' occurs twice in the whole pinned book, both in one Chapter XI paragraph, and both report what producers think: some companies 'welcome censorship' if it is high-minded and liberal, and most seem doubtful about Federal censorship. Münsterberg states no vote of his own in those sentences. His own stated position is about treatment, not a rule: a villain punished in the last reel does not undo glamorous vice, a play should not be a dramatized sermon, and if a 'moral atmosphere' pervades the whole screen world then no crime is barred from frank telling. No board, statute, list or age rule is named.
Curator qualifications: Censor sentences report producers' attitudes; author admits effects unmeasurable in the same paragraph as asserting danger.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] 1916 argument, unmeasured. The word 'censor' occurs twice in the whole pinned book, both in one Chapter XI paragraph, and both report what producers think: some companies 'welcome censorship' if it is high-minded and liberal, and most seem doubtful about Federal censorship. Münsterberg states no vote of his own in those sentences. His own stated position is about treatment, not a rule: a villain punished in the last reel does not undo glamorous vice, a play should not be a dramatized sermon, and if a 'moral atmosphere' pervades the whole screen world then no crime is barred from frank telling. No board, statute, list or age rule is named. · locator: ch. XI source
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