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A CONQUEST OF WORLDS
environs of Trafalgar Square, into the Boulevards, the Corso, Unter den Linden. And more and more as the European supply fell away and as ours improved, they showed American films.
Even after we declared war, the American motion picture raced madly onward. At times, volunteering and the draft disorganized both Holl3rwood studios and New York offices. But the war weighed upon us rather lightly; and always other human material flowed at once into the vacuum. We concentrated four million young men into camps; they must needs be entertained and kept out of mischief of nights. The simple, portable moving picture solved this military problem. Our four million young soldiers had to watch moving pictures, whether they wished or no. This served further to confirm the habit with all classes of Americans.
When, the war finished, the Europeans tried to struggle back into production, it seemed as though they had fallen twenty years behind the times. The great American companies had by now perfected their system of foreign distribution and were cultivating the field intensively. The more ambitious films were all produced with an eye to the export market. In Hollywood or New York, specialists on foreign races edited and cut export films to fit the tastes, prejudices, and government regulations of fifty nations. For example: the Englishspeaking peoples like a happy ending. The Germans prefer an unhappy ending; the gloomier the better.