Juvenile delinquency (1955)

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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY 129 States Army, at the Nuremberg war trials, lecturer and adviser to the police department; and Dr. H. R. Brickman, California Youth Authority; Dr. Coudley, chief psychiatrist at the juvenile hall; Hon. Judge William B. McKesson; Dr. David Bogen, director of juvenile hall^ Mr. Gentilli of the Boys' Group Movement; Carl Holtman, probation officer; Capt. Ben Stein, California Youth Authority. Furthermore, I have a letter here from Dr. Kelly to the director of the film, stating that he had read the script, and so forth and so forth. Here is one I l)rought from the youth authority for the State of California, signed Dr. H. R. Brickman. It says: Dear Mr. Uris — he was one of the writers— I consider it a privilege to have been of some possible aid to your very worth- while artistic undertaking. You most certainly did not overstay your welcome. As mentioned in our conversation, I would be most happy to be of any further assistance at any time. My best regards. And so forth. We very thoroughly go into specialization, with people who know their particular fields, when we do anything. And I would say in every film there is the story of Dien Bien Phu. We had a French colonel flown all the wa}' from Dien Bien Phu. We made a film called Jump Into Hell. Schary or Freeman said we were too late. Before we could make the film or put it out every- body had forgotten it, Dien Bien Phu. It was all washed out. How- ever, we made the film and took the loss. We were very authentic, by the way, but nobody came to see it. Mr. Young. May I rise, as you suggested ? Chairman Kefauver. All right, sir. Tell us your name. Mr. Young. Young; Jack R. Young. Chairman Kefauver. All right, Mr. Young. What do you arise for? Mr. Young. Mr. Warner, in stating of the pictures he has made, Mr. Warner has failed to state that the Warner Bros, studio, under his supervision, during the period of time, has made more gangster pic- tures than all major studios combined, so much so that the churches throughout the country had gotten together and preached to the con- gregation not to attend these pictures, gangster pictures, where they were shown. And the late Mr. Will Hayes, who then was designated or engaged as the producers' representative, had insisted that a code be drawn up, whereby pictures of the nature of gangsters that would influence delin- quency of children, as well as adults, be stopped. For a while tliat code was adhered to, but siiice then. I regret to say, as a motion picture cameraman—and Mr. Warner has known me for many years, perhaps 30 or more—that that condition at this time is prevailing: that children, youths, are influenced by the presentation, such as was stated by Mr. Mooring, of Black Tuesday, whereby a police officer had helped a criminal plant a gun in the execution cham- ber under a chair. That is not a true conviction of that criminal, but is exaggerated for the suspense in showing, where a police officer in a penal institution had ])lanted a gun, a loaded gun in the presence