The fact that millions are daily under the spell of the performances on the screen is established.

The high degree of their suggestibility during those hours in the dark house may be taken for granted.

Hence any wholesome influence emanating from the photoplay must have an incomparable power for the remolding and upbuilding of the national soul.

From this point of view the boundary lines between the photoplay and the merely instructive moving pictures with the news of the day or the magazine articles on the screen become effaced.

The intellectual, the moral, the social, and the esthetic culture of the community may be served by all of them.