FILMS CONDEMNED
ATTRACT SILLY PEOPLE IN SILLIEST MOMENTS.’ ’
YOUNG SHOULD BE PROTECTED
LONDON, Jan. 3,
“The commercial cinema depends on the ability to attract the largest possible number of silly .people in their silliest moments. 1 would not like to be a shareholder in Hollywood on the day of judgment,” said Mr. R. F. Oholmley in his presidential address to tiie headquarters of the Young People’s Association. “The chief victims ol the industry are the immature minds of western children, and the minds of some immature, and some dangerously precocious and inferior races.
“The cinema is typical of everything deserving of our most vigilant hostility as protectors of the young, '
lie continued. “Any business, except educational, of exploiting children is at best liable to lower the standard in order to extend the market, and at worst is an enemy of the human race. I believe it can be defeated, as education is improving dailv.’” —A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10299, 7 January 1927, Page 3
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157FILMS CONDEMNED Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10299, 7 January 1927, Page 3
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