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A STUDY IN SOCIAL LEGISLATION 13 attempted by many other companies, but coming at the present time, the action must also be recognized as a yielding, be it ever so slight, to an increasing public demand for clean pictures. That the members of the motion picture industry are not entirely insensible to the necessity of and demand for " clean pictures" is evidenced by the fact that the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry, representing the producers of a great majority of the motion pictures made in the United States, on March 5, 1921, unanimously adopted resolutions condemning the use of motion pictures as a means of "arousing bawdy emotions or pandering to a salacious curiosity", or otherwise endangering the public welfare. * Provision was made that the resolutions should not be so interpreted as to hamper the creators of art in motion pictures. In view of the fire of criticism which is being directed at the supposed lack of standards on the part of the motion picture interests, it seems advisable to reproduce in detail the ideals which they profess to support. The resolutions condemn the production of pictures: " (a) Which emphasize and exaggerate the sex appeal or depict scenes therein exploiting interest in sex in an improper or suggestive form or manner. 11 (b) Based upon white slavery or commercialized vice, or scenes showing the procurement of women or any of the activities attendant upon this traffic. " (c) Thematically making prominent an illicit love affair which tends to make virtue odious and vice attractive. " (d) With scenes which exhibit nakedness or persons scantily dressed, particularly suggestive bedroom and bathroom scenes and scenes of inciting dancing. " (e) With scenes which unnecessarily prolong expressions or demonstrations of passionate love. " (/) Predominantly concerned with the underworld or vice and crime, and like scenes, unless the scenes are part of an essential conflict between good and evil. 1 Chase, William Sheafe, Catechism on Motion Pictures, New York City, 1921, p. 21.