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wasted no time in securing the en tire industry. And the Protestants, we, the Christians? Why most of us took one look, pronounced it sinful, turned our back on it or buried our head in the sand saying, “ It will never last." Now some thirty years later here are some astounding results: Nearly every motion picture script that calls for a priest or a nun shows a Cath olic person represented as a hero, a wonderful sister, or an understand ing man of God, a man who meets today’s challenges with a dedicated faith. Then there are those wonder ful epics which tell an Old Testa ment story of Moses or some other great Jewish leader and the case for Judaism is lifted high and Jeho vah is honored. But let the script call for a Protestant minister and realize what is portrayed. Many times he is a sex deviate, a pervert or a complete hypocrite and at the very least is generally por trayed as a weak, wishy-washy, somewhat senile old man. The issue here is not if you go to motion pictures or not. The same is true with that which is portrayed in older films and even new produc tions on television. “ Movie makers, left largely to their own discretion about what to put on the screen, have abused the freedom,” said Hedda Hopper in a recent L.A. Times article. That’s puting it mildly, in my book, as something must be done to stop the flood of moral decay in America, and whether we like to admit it or not, our standing quietly by and letting the movie industry produce one hor rible film after another is a sin. I don’t think we should crusade for ANY cause except the cause of Christ, but I do agree with Hedda Hopper when she says we should write letters to a man who is in a position to do something positive to wards upgrading our films. He is Y. Frank Freeman, chairman of the board of the Motion Picture Asso ciation, Paramount Studios, Holly wood, Calif. Write him as a business man, a mother, a teenager, but most ly as a Christian to tell him of his moral obligation. I spoke with the man in charge of building a new film studio which will produce Christian motion pictures. Such efforts need our united pray ers. These studios will be dedicated to Christ and the presentation of the Gospel through the medium of motion pictures. Let us claim for them Matthew 18:19, backing them with much prayer that the sound of the voice of the Lord shall be heard around the world.
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S HORTLY BEFORE I was born, a new and exciting means of communi cation burst upon our country and soon spread around the world. It quickly by - passed the word - of - mouth, the telegraph, the telephone and the radio. It was known throughout the world as the medium of motion pictures.
People were very quick to react to this new medium. The Catholic church took stock of the situation, guessed at its potential, then leaped in to take major control. The Jewish people recognized immediately that this was the quickest medium ever to be invented to get across an idea, a thought or a principle so they
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