“Lifting Them Up” a censors notes for silent film titles…

Benjamin DeCasseres, who wrote intertitles for films produced by the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation—including the first American release of Nosferatu—leaked to his friend H. L. Mencken the Pennsylvania State Board of Censors’ notes for one of the films he was working on. Mencken, amused by the absurdity of the mandated moral “corrections,” published the list verbatim Continue reading Lifting…