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The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace (1944)

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Title:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Date:
1944
Publisher:
New York : Richard R. Smith
Volume:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Leaf #:
00017
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 01, 2025
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WHEN THE WATER CAME 5 The motion picture is a child of freedom — freedom of inventive genius, freedom of business initiative, freedom of artistic expression. As a child of freedom, this art industry recognizes its responsibility in the present crisis. As volunteers, we are in the fight until victory has been won. The War Activities Committee— Motion Picture Industry was created for the sole purpose of channeling effectively a wide variety of voluntary services which individuals and groups within our industry were eager to render to officially established war agencies and national wartime philanthropies. The Hollywood Victory Committee is a similar mobilization of the members of the talent guilds in behalf of the war effort. In a deeply moving scene in the final sequence of the film, Mrs. Miniver, the village vicar, addressing words of comfort and courage to his stricken friends, declares: "This is not a war of soldier against soldier; it is a war of the people." The motion picture is the art of the people, enlisted for the duration in this people's war. Its custodians will not willingly permit its freedom to be impaired under any pretense whatever. Without freedom this people's art cannot long endure. To the preservation of freedom, for which the peoples of the United Nations are pouring out their blood and treasure, we cheerfully and voluntarily dedicate ourselves, our talents and our art.