NOT VERY EXCITING as viewed today, this self-serving slice of commercial message was most likely sort of bland and boring in its heyday. However, it does carry a very important message that was of vital interest to a certain special interest group, namely the Motion Picture Industry.
MUCH THE SAME as any other political advertisement (which this essentially is), the film is heavily weighted toward one point of view. That's not unusual nor truly dishonest; for it is the very function of a film such as this, to promote a particular idea, cause or product.
FOLLOWING AN OPENING pitch, the film takes us to the scene of a "typical American family" at Sunday dinner. In a very sort of "Ozzie & Harriet" manner, they decide to go to the movies after the Sunday roast chicken dinner had been consumed. All portrayed are idyllic; be they the family members, the movie theatre and all movie house employees.
AMONG THOSE WHO appear to give testimony are humorist/author Irwin S. Cobb, Kay Francis, Warner Oland (appearing as Charlie Chan)and May Robson. The words "wholesome" and "entertainment" are paired often in emphasis of the 'clean' film, Mother, Apple Pie and Baseball school of metaphoric expressions.
ALTHOUGH THE SITUATIONS that are portrayed and mentioned about the banning of movies being exhibited on the Christian Sabbath may well seem to be kind of "Campy" to the modern reader; but we should not be too quick to dismiss what we are being told.
THIS SORT OF look into the past's peculiar problems just may well lead to our understanding of some of our modern day problems in this heavily bureaucratic, highly centrally governed and overly burdened with laws and regulations in today's World.
MUCH THE SAME as any other political advertisement (which this essentially is), the film is heavily weighted toward one point of view. That's not unusual nor truly dishonest; for it is the very function of a film such as this, to promote a particular idea, cause or product.
FOLLOWING AN OPENING pitch, the film takes us to the scene of a "typical American family" at Sunday dinner. In a very sort of "Ozzie & Harriet" manner, they decide to go to the movies after the Sunday roast chicken dinner had been consumed. All portrayed are idyllic; be they the family members, the movie theatre and all movie house employees.
AMONG THOSE WHO appear to give testimony are humorist/author Irwin S. Cobb, Kay Francis, Warner Oland (appearing as Charlie Chan)and May Robson. The words "wholesome" and "entertainment" are paired often in emphasis of the 'clean' film, Mother, Apple Pie and Baseball school of metaphoric expressions.
ALTHOUGH THE SITUATIONS that are portrayed and mentioned about the banning of movies being exhibited on the Christian Sabbath may well seem to be kind of "Campy" to the modern reader; but we should not be too quick to dismiss what we are being told.
THIS SORT OF look into the past's peculiar problems just may well lead to our understanding of some of our modern day problems in this heavily bureaucratic, highly centrally governed and overly burdened with laws and regulations in today's World.