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CHILDREN AND THE FILM
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elaboration? To state it is to prove it. Hence cinematography has revolutionized child life; it has introduced a potent influence which can do immense good or immense evil.
Now it is clear that the few men — not more than a dozen at the most — who dominate the film-producing industry as we know it to-day are not primarily concerned with the education of children in right living. It is not to be expected that they should be. They are out for money : the only test of a film which they allow is — Will it pay on a colossal scale? As a matter of plain fact the films they produce show that almost without exception they are entirely lacking in idealism, culture, education, or feeling for public decency. Their ideas run mainly to scenes of violence, undressed or suggestively-dressed women, and the crudest jests. Surely, therefore, it is only reasonable to expect that public authorities would take every possible precaution to make sure that children are not allowed to see films likely to have a degrading effect upon them. Is this so?
Mr. William Marston Seabury, in his invaluable survey, ' Motion Picture Problems,' declares that no special regulations regarding the admission of children to cinematograph performances appear to have been promulgated in certain Provinces of Canada, Cuba, Egypt, Esthonia, Federated Malay States, France, Great Britain or Morocco.
In the United States ' in practically no place are regulations with reference to moving pictures made or administered primarily with reference to children, although the authorized censors in some localities report that they try to bear in mind the effect of the pictures on the morals of children and young people. ... A few cities prohibit the attendance of children under certain ages at moving-picture shows during school hours and, unless accompanied by adults, at other times.'
Austria allows children under sixteen to attend a cinematograph performance only if it has been passed for exhibition to children and minors. Belgium