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" The cinema is able to present life in a way that will emphasise the nobler and better aspects of the daily round, giving a meaning to life and a dignity to work that are calculated to strengthen character ".
" The force of example is everywhere admitted. The cinema, which mirrors life, sets a lofty, attractive and powerful example. Beyond affording aesthetic pleasure, it trains and tempers the character ".
" Art is the exaltation of the power of the symbol over the human mind; it is the universal language spoken and understood in every country, because it is the language of things themselves. What a child sees influences his mind more than what he reads and more than anything that requires an intellectual effort before it can be transformed into images. The cinema is certainly an aid to self-training. It accustoms the child to observe, judge, criticise and think, freely and in silence; it thus helps to form independence of character ".
" The cinema of the future must be directed along quite different lines. Children must be given a faithful picture of life without its illusions, so that they may derive therefrom some moral, intellectual or spiritual lesson. Luxury and display, as represented on the screen, excite unhealthy desires, although they might be aesthetically educative if shown in their due relation to beauty and art. The cinema is largely instrumental in forming character, since it sets up in children a train of ideas, an intellectual ferment which operates within the mind and determines the character. Hence the importance of showing children wholesome films ".
" The cinema's influence is due to the photographic accuracy and the permanency of its impressions. The child must be shown the bright side of life, taught to appreciate beauty and truth. These lessons are to be found in the many aspects of Nature and in Art, particularly in painting. Children should be spared the psychological complications and moral problems that beset humanity. A young girl can learn from the cinema better than from any other source to acquire a proper sense of duty to her family, her country and her fellow-creatures ".
" The cinema helps to develop conscience in children, awakening in them pity, indignation, admiration or joy. In this way the character is formed according to the impressions received ".
" The cinema, that is, the entertainment cinema, has a definite influence on the character; it teaches children to appreciate energy, quickness of action, courage, presence of mind. The hero of a popular film wins the hearts of the young, gives endless proofs of his courage, overcomes a thousand natural and artificial obstacles; his whole being is engaged in a superhuman effort to realise some noble ideal. Whether he is victorious or whether he succumbs, he has lived or died beautifully, " with vine leaves in his hair". This indomitable sense of duty, this dazzling succession of deeds of sacrifice and valour this steadfast pursuit of right, this thrilling fight for the triumph of good over evil kindle the enthusiasm of the young inspire them with faith and impart to the character the temper of fine steel".
These last four answers amount to a glorification of the cinema as helping to popularise moral principles, optimism and a higher sense of justice and duty.