Perhaps this is what the censors objected to when they noted that the posters advertising the films are often more objectionable than the films themselves. For example, in one of the Russell Sage Foundation sponsored reports (The Motion Picture Problem, 1921) Charles Lathrop writes: "utterly false impressions as to the character of a film are frequently given by the advertising. If the pictures were as bad as the posters sometimes indicate the conditions would be much more serious" (8).
