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Motion Picture Reviews
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MOTION • PICTURE • REVIEWS
Published monthly by
THE WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY CLUB
LOS ANCELES BRANCH
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
Mrs. Palmer Cook, General Co-Chairman Mrs. John Vruwink, General Co-Chairman Mrs. Chester A. Ommanney, Preview Chairman Mrs. Charles Booth Assistant Preview Chairmen Mrs. Thomas B. Williamson
EDITORS
Mrs. Palmer Cook Mrs. J. Allen Davis Mrs. George Ryall
Mrs. Walter Van Dyke Mrs. John Vruwink
Address all communications to The Women’s University Club, 943 South Hoover St., Los Angeles, Calif. Advance Supplement is published and mailed approximately the 15th of each month.
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Vol. VI
SEPTEMBER, 1934
No. 3
EDITORIAL
We are reprinting here, from the Motion Picture Research Council Bulletin (August, 1934), the objectives and policies of the Council. We feel that our readers will be interested and that they should be fully informed in this important project. (Editor.)
OBJECTIVES, POLICIES AND PROGRAM
I. OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the Motion Picture Research Council are to focus public attention on the motion picture as a social influence, and to find and set in motion forces that will progressively improve the quality of entertainment and education it provides.
II. POLICIES
In order to carry out its objectives the Motion Picture Research Council recognizes five ways in which it can function most effectively:
1. Education
The Motion Picture Research Council has consistently taken the position that a full understanding on the part of the public of the educational and cultural possibilities of the screen was an essential step in improving the character of motion pictures. To this end the Council will consistently engage in programs of education.
2. Cooperation and Coordination
It is the policy of the Council to cooperate with all agencies that seek to increase the social values and decrease the harmful in
fluences of the motion picture, and to aid in coordinating the efforts of such agencies.
3. Organization
In the interest of cooperation and coordination of effort the Council will seek to develop and maintain organic connection with national, state, and local groups. It will also enroll individuals who wish to help it attain its objectives.
4. Action
The Council includes as one of its most important policies the formulation and promotion of programs of action for the attainment of its objectives.
5. Research
The Council will continue to promote studies on the content and influence of motion pictures.
III. NATIONAL PROGRAM OF ACTION
1. Call a Conference for the early Fall of 1934, for the purpose of securing a coordination and cooperation of national agencies interested in improvement cf motion pictures.
2. Work for the freedom of the community to select its own films by
(a) abolishing compulsory block booking, and
(b) abolishing blind selling.