The more vividly the impressions force themselves on the mind, the more easily must they become starting points for imitation and other motor responses.

The sight of crime and of vice may force itself on the consciousness with disastrous results.

The normal resistance breaks down and the moral balance, which would have been kept under the habitual stimuli of the narrow routine life, may be lost under the pressure of the realistic suggestions.

At the same time the subtle sensitiveness of the young mind may suffer from the rude contrasts between the farces and the passionate romances which follow with benumbing speed in the darkened house.

The possibilities of psychical infection and destruction cannot be overlooked.
Those may have been exceptional cases only when grave crimes have been traced directly back to the impulses from unwholesome photoplays, but no psychologist can determine exactly how much the general spirit of righteousness, of honesty, of sexual cleanliness and modesty, may be weakened by the unbridled influence of plays of low moral standard.