Will H. Hays.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Introduction. By Will H. Hays | [v] | |
| I. | —The Movie’s New Significance | [1] |
| II. | —The Movie at its Birth | [19] |
| III. | —The Movie’s First Steps | [33] |
| IV. | —The Movie Goes to the Bad | [45] |
| V. | —The Movie Develops a Conscience | [59] |
| VI. | —The Movie and the Library | [69] |
| VII. | —The Movie’s Appetite for Plots | [81] |
| VIII. | —The Movie and the Continuity Writer | [93] |
| IX. | —The Movie Improves its Morals | [103] |
| X. | —The Movie Maketh—What Kind of a Man? | [115] |
| XI. | —The Movie and the Committee on Public Relations | [125] |
| XII. | —The Movie as a Pedagogue | [135] |
| XIII. | —The Movie Interpreting the Past | [145] |
| XIV. | —The Movie Takes on New Functions | [155] |
| XV. | —The Movie as a World Power | [165] |
| XVI. | —The Movie and the Censor | [177] |
| XVII. | —The Movie as a World-Language | [189] |
| XVIII. | —The Movie as the Hope of Civilization | [201] |
| Appendix A—Statistics Showing the Scope of the Motion Picture Industry | [215] | |
| Appendix B—The Screen as a New Life Giver to Literary Classics | [218] | |
| Appendix C—What Massachusetts Thinks of Motion Picture Censorship | [221] | |
| Appendix D—Significant Dates in the Evolution of the Motion Picture | [222] | |
| Appendix E—What the Movie has Done for a Great Railroad | [224] | |
| Appendix F—Facts and Figures Showing that the Screen has Become the First World Conqueror | [225] | |
| Appendix G—Members of the Committee on Public Relations Co-operating with Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. | [227] |
That Marvel—The Movie
CHAPTER I
THE MOVIE’S NEW SIGNIFICANCE
Civilization in Peril—Leaders of Thought give Warning—Mankind Repeats Old Errors—Needs a Universal Language—The Motion Picture the Only Esperanto—Can the Screen Save the Race?—Why a History of the Movies is of Crucial Importance.
CHAPTER I