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lently aroused enthusiasm in the criminal quarters of London and New York up to the time when they were prohibited because they caused moral harm and showed the perfection of criminality) should have had a great influence on criminology in general and on infantile criminology in particular.
Not only, but I think that when one protests against all the cinematograph, one does not think, instead, that one of the best and most rapid means to combat the harmful influences would be to suspend the projection of all the films produced up to 1925 or 1926. Today these films, in every country of the World, especially in our countries of South America, in the Far East, in the provinces of European countries are being continually shown, exploited (might be said in technic slang) by the Firms renting Films. And they are exploited with copies, ruined, lined, ugly inside and out. These hundreds of subjects belonging to the production of all countries (it must be borne in mind that they were produced from 1 9 14 to 1925) are shown to simple folk, unable often to read and write, peasants and artisans, to persons who do not know and will only know the worst sides of our so-called civilisation by these means .
These films had been censured; the renters are therefore in the right ! But can a vise of the Censor given ten or fifteen years ago, when the cinematograph had not the same moral, social and political importance that it has today (or, better still, when such importance had not been valued exactly) be considered efficacious in time and duration also when the mentality or the industrial necessity of once upon a time has passed ?
I do not hesitate to affirm that if all the great cinematograph critics, the scientists who aim their arrows at them often justly > the psychologist who in school and hospital trace the tragic consequences of the screen ; the judges and magistrates who in numerous cases of infantile crime find in cinematographic projections incitement and instigation to crime ; the sociologists, who in the films and their projections, see very serious and dangerous consequences in the cultivation of tastes, customs, habits on the mental and psychic formation of the population, were to make a full enquiry to catalogue the films that bring about such results,
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