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 #:
00020
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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Movies as Propaganda (From an address before the Chicago Rotary Club, October 19, 1943.) Gentlemen of the Chicago Rotary Club. As your presiding officer has told you, I am not using the title, "Movies As Propaganda," which is printed on your program. I am speaking instead on "The Function of the Motion Picture in Wartime in a Democracy." I have tried not to use the word "propaganda" for the past five years. Considerable study convinced me that the word did not mean the same thing to different individuals and groups. I believe it was Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who declared that words are merely the skins for ideas. When skin wears thin, irritation follows, and irritation is not conducive to an intellectual approach to any question. The word "propaganda" was born on sacred ground but fell into such bad company that it is now an abusive epithet. The head of the Roman Catholic Church centuries ago brought the word into current usage when he established The College of the Propaganda — a religious society for the propagation of the truths of the Christian religion. Today there are still some who declare that all truth is "propaganda," but I suppose the rank and file of 8