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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY 213 proj2:ram recommended 8 to 12 years; CPA for children's programs acceptable 8 to 12 years; and Fli for family recommended. Before pictures are released to theaters, prints of all films are made available by each of our producing companies for screening by these subcommittees. Our people cooperate carefully to maintain conven- ient schedules for the viewing groups to insure that every film is seen and appraised. Each member of the viewing committee makes an individual report and these are then assembled and referred to a joint editorial com- mittee which prepares the final joint estimate. When there are ap- preciable variances among those who evaluate a picture, these vari- ances are included in the published appraisal. The final estimate, widely know^n throughout the United States as the Green Sheet is now ready for publication and distribution. Throughout the N'ation this advance information on forthcoming mo- tion pictures becomes available to thousands of parents, teachers, cler- gymen, and community leaders of all kinds. Most of the participat- ing national organizations also print the Green Sheet estimates in their national publications. Libraries and schools and churches regu- larly display them. The Parent-Teacher magazine, for example, car- ries in every issue two pages of these motion-picture estimates. These estimates are available to the parents and the teachers and to the people who are directing the thinking of juveniles throughout the country. We are very regretful they are not more widely used even than they are. I have taken the committee's time to explain the operation of the Green Sheet because I think it merits special consideration. It is not censorship. It is a kind of an independent audit of our product b}'' a representative cross section of the American people. It is a critical analysis intended primarily as a guide, for parents and teachers who have a specific responsibility to juveniles. But it is helpful to us, too. You can be sure that we read the Green Sheet appraisals with great care and reflection. Operating apart from the 13 national groups which prepare and edit the Green Sheet is another large national organization, the Cath- olic Legion of Decency. It too views our films and publishes its rat- ings. It appraisals, an important and persuasive guide to millions of theater ]^atrons, are expressed in these categories: Class A, section I—Morally unobjectionable for general patronage; Class A, section II—morally unobjectionable for adults; Class B—Morally objection- able in part for all; and Class C—Condemned. 4. SCHOOL AND EDUCAnONAL USE OF MOTIOIST PICTURES I come now to the fourth activity of the industry, that of making films available for schoolroom and general educational use. This is a program now in its 16th year, during which more than 900 motion pictures have been selected by committees of educators in almost every field of teaching for classroom vise. It is a program administered by Teaching Film Custodians, a non- profit affiliate of the Motion Picture Association. Nine of America's distinguished educators are its board of directors and nine leaders from the motion-picture industry work hand in hand with them. Our pro- ducing companies, without a penny of financial return to them, set up