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CINEMA PROGRESS
picture world and are preparing to enter it professionally, and another group, equally cultivated, who have no such professional hopes. Such an opportunity was furnished at the U. S. C. summer session, for there were classes of students in cinematography, psychology, and speech, with moving pictures as the topic of stu d y. Also, there were classes in philosophy, character education, and general education. Further, most of the students were high school and university instructors, thus insuring more mature judgment.
In answering the questionnaire, students were asked to check the capital Y for an emphatic yes, the small letter y for a modified affirmative, O meaning can't decide, small n inclined toward the negative, and capital N for an emphatic no.
Typical of the questions asked, and their answers by the college group:
1. Is the influence of motion pictures, in your opinion, wTholesome?
Y— 10, y— 87, O— 22, n— 65, X— 15.
2. In your opinion, are they improving in their moral tone?
Y— 63, y— 95, O— 12, n— 24, N— 6.
3. Have the movies presented war situations in such a way as to encourage world peace?
Y— 66, y— 66, O— 17, n— 39, X— 23.
4. Is movie humor on the whole elevating and artistically satisfying?
Y— 12, y— 33, O— 22, n— 74, N— 58.
5. Have the movies created false so
cial standards?
Y— 68, y— 70, O— 21, n— 26, X— 11.
6. Are there too many instances in which divorce is made too easy and delectable?
Y— 78, y— 67, O— 24, n— 22, X— 6.
7. Is sensuous appeal too often dragged into the plot apparently just for the sake of making the picture "take" or "go over" or "sell"?
Y— 83, y— 70, O— 22 n_9 \T_5.
s tne ugly and coarse usually treated in such a way as to enhance beauty and refinement by contrast?
Y— 21, y— 70, O— 34, n— 32, N— 21.
9. Do motion pictures, on the whole, cultivate and dignify the art appreciation of the public?
Y— 19, y— 72, O— 30, n— 39, N— 17.
10. Is there a tendency to oversentimentalize?
Y— 49, y— 79, O— 22, n— 33, N— 7.
The implications of the findings indicated above are too self-evident to need much comment. Approval and disapproval seems evenly divided concerning the wholesomeness of the influence of motion pictures upon the public. Most
Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck, author of this
article, is nationally known in the fields ~~ q xT
of philosophy and research, and is a — — > n ^> J-Nkeen student of the motion picture. Q t i
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