The screen is the greatest medium for understanding among nations. Pictures are becoming more and more an international agency, politically and socially. They can be made to wipe out war. Through our intimacy with the manners and customs of different peoples, we become part of the great world. To know is to understand, to love.
Movies thus promote sympathy and understanding among nations.
Most motion pictures are adapted from stage plays and books. The ways of expression used in pictures are different from plays and books. People think in words. It will be a long time before people will think in terms of pictures. Ideas are all right for stage people, but pictures prefer simple, straight stories of facts.