On the contrary, the appeal of those strictly educational lessons may be less deep than the producers hope, because the untrained minds, especially of youth and of the uneducated audiences, have considerable difficulty in following the rapid flight of events when they occur in unfamiliar surroundings.

The child grasps very little in seeing the happenings in a factory.

The psychological and economic lesson may be rather wasted because the power of observation is not sufficiently developed and the assimilation proceeds too slowly.
But it is quite different when a human interest stands behind it and connects the events in the photoplay.
The difficulties in the way of the right moral influence are still greater than in the intellectual field.

Certainly it is not enough to have the villain punished in the last few pictures of the reel.

If scenes of vice or crime are shown with all their lure and glamour the moral devastation of such a suggestive show is not undone by the appended social reaction.