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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 #:
00046
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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The Motion Picture and the World Community {Address on Radio Forum: "The World of Sight and Sound," broadcast nationally by N.B.C., July 31, 1943.) The American motion picture industry is mobilized today to help in winning the war and to aid in making the peace secure. This art industry, which uses simultaneously the multiple sensory appeals of words, music, motion, and color, recognizes its responsibility to the free society of which it is both a part and a symbol. We bring to the United Nations several priceless assets: (1) The language of pictures is the only common language of mankind. After the war it is this medium which can most quickly surmount the barriers of suspicion and tradition and best interpret the attitudes, customs, and longings of various people to each other. (2) The American motion picture already has a great world audience, equal before the war to one-eighth of the human race each week. (3) Hollywood is today the international center of the world of sight and sound where talent and creative genius from everywhere are welcomed. (4) The American motion picture has demonstrated its capacity to transfer to this people's art form the literature, the music, the history and the drama of all the world and 34