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MOVIES AND CONDUCT
is in connection with the relations of parents and children. The adolescent boy and girl see a film in which the young people are allowed an enviable degree of freedom from parental control, and their resentment of restrictions on their own liberty is heightened. Thus one girl of sixteen writes: 'Of course, the movies made me want to rebel against my parents' supervision.' And from a boy of seventeen this : 'The movies have made me dislike restraint of any kind. They have also made me dislike work.'
A similar reaction can be seen in the case of pictures dealing with love. Many young people in fact acquire most of their information on this subject from films. Thus one girl of seventeen writes: T learned something about the art of love-making and that bad and pretty girls are usually more attractive to men than intelligent and studious girls.' And another girl of sixteen writes: T think the movies have a great deal to do with present-day so-called "wildness". If we didn't see such examples in the movies, where should we get the idea of being "hot"? We wouldn't.'
Films which show young people leading free and luxurious lives amid romantic settings are liable to stir up a certain amount of restlessness among those whose own circumstances are markedly less exciting and attractive than the ones presented on the screen. Thus 22 per cent of the writers of the 458 high school autobiographies admit having experienced dissatisfaction with their homes as a result of seeing motion pictures. It is an interesting fact that the percentage of girls who acknowledged this influence was twice as high as the percentage of boys. This may be partially explained by the greater degree of restriction which some families continue to impose on their daughters, and which would accordingly make the latter more receptive to the appeal of the gay life portrayed on the films. Thus one sixteen-year-old schoolgirl writes: T think that girls should be treated the same as boys by their parents. They should tell their folks where they're going but shouldn't be kept on a strict time limit.'
A film which seems to have had a very widespread influence on the adolescents from whom Professor Blumer drew his material was one called Our Dancing Daughters. This picture was apparently a kind of apologia for modern youth, and purported to show how too strict an upbringing may produce the very results which it is seeking to avoid. The moral was seized on joyfully by those who felt that it could be applied with justice to their own cases — T think parents should take a lesson from that picture. I wished that mother had seen it. Maybe she would not be so strict on me if she had seen
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