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28 MOTION PICTURES ship, and representative of a larger number shown where no legalized censorship exists. An analogy which is frequently made is one comparing a movie with a book or work of art, and arguing therefrom that that which is permissible in print and art is also permissible on the screen. This contention has been well answered by Dr. Ellis P. Oberholtzer in the following quotation. "I have often been told, when I have protested against a particular scene in a film, that this is but a transcript of what is described in a newspaper or a magazine. Conditions are very different; analogy is false. A printed line may tell of the birth of a child; a photographic depiction of the process of childbirth is another matter. An assault upon a woman may be alluded to in print; it may, indeed, be the climax of a story. But to photograph the last details of such an attack and reproduce each movement in the graphic method of the movie is to offend good taste, and often good morals." l In accordance with this line of thought it is not valid to contend that since stories much more frank in their basis of sex motive are generally conceded as good literature and a desirable form of human achievement, therefore motion pictures of a similar nature are to be fostered rather than repressed. The National Board of Review has always maintained that its policy was to base its standards for reviewing on public opinion, and that it constantly kept in touch with public opinion through correspondence and other means of investigation. One of the means of investigation recently employed was a question- naire which was sent to eight hundred leading theatre owners in different parts of the country. A mimeographed report issued by the National Board in March, 1921, stated that 64 replies from owners or managers of 104 theatres had been re- ceived and analyzed. 2 An attempt several months later to dis- cover whether any more replies had been received resulted in the information that only two or three additional replies had come 1 Oberholtzer, Dr. E. P., What are the Movies Making of Our Children? World's Work, Vol. XLI, No. 3, January, 1921. 2 Mimeographed material in the hands of the author.