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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 #:
00060
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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48 THE COMMAND IS FORWARD nearly so simple nor so idyllic. The point is that the vast majority of us insist on believing in the capacity of men and women to attain happiness. In short, we have faith in the power of love to triumph over tragedy; faith in the power of good to conquer evil; faith in man's ability to find true happiness in spite of all the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." Hollywood, the home of the happy ending, is then the one spot above all others where faith is "an essential, critical material," the sine qua non of every writer and producer. What has this to do with war and peace — the basic issue in today's blood-soaked, bomb-wrecked world? It has everything to do with the outcome of this struggle. Victory is now in sight, but the peace can be made secure only if enough people in enough countries have enough faith in the capacity of mankind to organize the world community so effectively that our children and their children can live unmolested by wholesale destruction of human lives and family homes through recurring wars. Now is the time of all times for Hollywood to stress and strengthen this faith in man's ability to make peace secure, to find at long last a happy ending. Twenty-five years ago we were united in our determination as a people to find the happy ending but we were tragically divided as a nation with regard to the best way to achieve the goal. Millions of us believed that Woodrow Wilson had the answer in his plan for a world organization. Other millions insisted that we could find happiness