THE FACE ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR The Story of Movie and Television Censorship by Schumach, Murray - 1964

NY: William Morrow. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding is clean, sound and unworn, except the light tan coloring of the boards is a little mottled . Minor edge soil/foxing. Very minor age-yellowing of endpapers. Contents are almost as new. DJ is not much to look at, but it provides plenty of protection and information. ; First Printing of First Edition. 9-1/8" Tall, 305pp. Light tan boards with bright silver accents, black cloth spine with red and bright silver spine lettering. MOVIES. "The intriguing history of cinema censorship is as much a panorama of American morality in the twentieth century as it is a tale of quick-buck chicanery, hypocrisy, bigotry, ignorance, and the admirable struggle to make movies a great art form. This book tells the absorbing specific stories of the many films on which the censors went to work. Here, also, is an inside look at the movie industry 'black list' and how 'unemployable' writers get work via the Hollywood underground. The book discusses the role played by pressure groups and detailed evidence is presented to show how our federal government continually censors motion pictures despite the guarantees of the Constitution. Here, too, is the first full report of Khrushchev's visit to Hollywood in 1960, an account that would be hilarious if it didn't expose the movie industry at its worst. " The Appendix includes the complete Motion Picture Production Code. ..Index. 40-page b/w photo section, mostly movie stills. .