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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 #:
00027
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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UNITED WE STAND 15 distributor and exhibitor, between affiliated and unaffiliated theatres, between circuits and individual operators. But transcending all these cleavages is the fact that an attack on the motion picture industry is damaging to all its branches, that every failure to keep our own house in order is an invitation to eager busybodies to try to take over. We all have much in common. We are the custodians of a great popular medium of information and entertainment. It is our indivisible inheritance. Through unity we can safeguard and develop it; through bitter quarrels we can impair its value and weaken its prestige. We win when we work together. We are proving it in wartime. Let's strengthen this growing spirit of industry unity for the days ahead. United we stand as an industry — today and tomorrow! United we stand as a nation. Three days hence we celebrate the birthday of American independence. Let us leave this delightful spot, not only determined to foster industry unity in every appropriate fashion, but also rededicated to certain great principles upon which we are united as a nation. My friend Henry Luce, of Time, Life, and Fortune, in a recent address, paid tribute to a truly great book by Professor Ralph Gabriel of Yale University, titled The Course of American Democratic Thought, I have just finished this volume and commend it to your careful perusal. From its pages I have gleaned much of the material which I