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204 MOVIES IN SOCIETY
PTA or any congregation may and sometimes does put the pressure on the industry to show a better quality picture. Most of the time, the same groups more or less organized make pressures on the legislator through hearings or other methods when the law in question is to be passed or debatable, show their strength, by what I would call "the unofficial censorship" which sometimes is the most effective.
The only trouble is that most censors don't know too much about the censorship of motion pictures, also the lacking of elementary backgrounds of human psychology and have insufficient knowledge of law plus a complete disregard for what is known, in many countries, as "the science of filmology". This is a big handicap for the censors, and as a result the public and the producer suffer or are victims of this sad situation.
To our knowledge, the best censorship would be exercised by the pressure group itself, provided the people who will take this task will be adequately prepared for this kind of a job, on which the future of our children and our social order may depend. Unfortunately, the present organized or semi-organized pressure groups described above have even less background and preparation than the official censors themselves. A big help sometimes, are the critics of motion pictures such as Bosley Crowther, John McCarten, Archer Winsten, Wanda Hale, Abraham Weiler, Vincent Curby, Paul Buckley, Eugene Archer, Dorothy Masters, Leo Mushkin, Arthur Knight, Justin Gilbert, Nune Lagny, Alton Cook and others who through their respective papers criticise and grade pictures. In many cases, they make up the mind of the viewer whether to see particular pictures, and stimulate the producer to make better quality films. The motion picture is primarily a form of entertainment. Because of this the motion picture industry depends on the customers for the quality of films they want to see.