Evening star., 1925-04-22
RELENTLESS FIGHT
ON UNCLEAN FILMS
PROPOSED TO D. A. R

| Continued from First Pase0
| for the children of this city. The
! Southeastern States and those of the
| Middle and Far West also have much
70 their credit. Through the CO.
| operation of the committee on public
| Producers and Distributors of
| America, Inc, sufficient pictures suit
| able for the Saturday morning movie
have been selected and assembled.
Just as we are anxious to have
| every person in our country thorough.
/ ly understand our own history, so we
are interested in making sure that the
various peoples Of the world under
stand each other, thus securing a
| friendly, international relation. Mo-
| ton pictures are almost entirely an
American product-S9 per cent Of the
! pictures made in the world are made
| here. Most Of the pictures that are
! made in the world have in them Amer
| lean settings, American people and
i American customs, ct cetera-the re-
suits OF American civilization.
Tell American Habits.
AS these pictures of the present
| Gay American civilization are being
| shown in other parts of the world they
| carry the story of our customs and
habits. During these last three years
a very decided effort has been made
by the association to make sure that
! the pictures which go out Of this coun-
! try are OF the sort that would prop
erly represent America. BY the same
token, the association is making sure
| that pictures which come from other
countries depicting other peoples shall
properly portray them.
| A recent report of the DEPARTMENT
OF commerce bears out the belief that
our pictures are being a helpful effect
on our world relationship. 1t states
that little while ago, even since the
war. other countries looked to the con
tlnent and England for leadership in
styles, ranging all the way from
clothes to food and from typewriters
| 10 farming tools. Now, however. he
cause they have seen what they want
In our pictures, they are ordering their
supplies from America
Ana now as to advertising-man nv
pictures, orten worthy of your support
are condemned by their titles and most.
ers. While it is of the latter your.
| chairman wishes to speak, she also
Wlshes that every one of YOU would
not take hearsay opinions of pictures
be your own judge. AS to the posters
IL you see an Objectionable poster
OF one which falsely advertises the
picture, you can help this committee
materially by reporting to the chair.
nan !h lhe name of the picture, the
theater displaying such poster the
city or town where it appears and the
uate. your chairman can assure Won
that with such definite data much NAV
pe zone. Your chairman speaks adj.
visedly, for her efforts in this regard
nave found an instant response on
the part of the association.
Asks Probe Of Fake Schools.
Under false advertising comes also
the so-ealled schools of acting and
scenario writing. Many of them
promise positions to students If there
are such in your communities inyesti-
gate them or ask your chairman TO
Tor thus you may be of great assist,
ance sr TO the youth of our country.
rms is the personal obligation of
every member of this society. a great
power placed in your hands toward
peter condition for our people.
Al our last congress your chair
man urged our doing whatever We
could to prevent the filming of oh
lectlonable books, as we'll as prevent
ing the making of good pictures ont
OF such books. Your chairman was
one of three who took this I'm With
the industry, through the committea
ON public relations. We found that
the association realized the danger Of
making pictures which literally inter
preted certain types of books and
plays. We also found them willing
for the sake of the Young people Of
the country particularly, to refrain
from making good pictures based
upon questionable books or PLAYS
LAS result of the suggestions of
the committee on public relations in
| this matter, and with the concurring
opinion of an outstanding firm of
| lawyers, VIII H. HAYS. president
Of the Motion Picture Producers and
Distributors of America, Inc an.
nounced on July 81, 1924, that here
after the companies represented in
the association would not allow the
prevalent type of book and pla.v to
become the prevalent type of picture.
160 Plays Refused.
Since that time 100 books and
plays G have seen the list of these
books and plays, prominent because
| of their objectionableness, have been
! refused by all of the companies repre
sented in the association, and of the
| total number Of pictures in production
during this whole period a negligible
/ few laid themselves open to this
!
of the industry writer's are now be-
ginning to submit their manuscripts
to the producers before having them
published in story or book form, for
writer's appreciate the film rights of
a story far more than they do the
| published manuscript. We may now
| look for twofold benefit from this
action-better books and better films.
''One don't for you-dont in
| crease the box Office receipts by con-
stantly keeping before the public the
| fact that picture is bad. You know
| human nature, One of our chairmen
has said, Films are like Topsy-seem
| just growed." But they have growed
| sufficiently to stay. Less than 90
years old, but the fourth largest in
| dustry in our United States. Motion
picture speaks all languages. to all
| nationalities and all ages. They are
destined to be the greatest power in
education all over the world. What
T, is the basic problem now before us?
To me IL is education and personal
responsibility. Education-not of the