It is a superb enjoyment which no other art can furnish us._ No wonder that temples for the new goddess are built in every little hamlet.
The intensity with which the plays take hold of the audience cannot remain without strong social effects.

It has even been reported that sensory hallucinations and illusions have crept in; neurasthenic persons are especially inclined to experience touch or temperature or smell or sound impressions from what they see on the screen.

The associations become as vivid as realities, because the mind is so completely given up to the moving pictures.

The applause into which the audiences, especially of rural communities, break out at a happy turn of the melodramatic pictures is another symptom of the strange fascination.

But it is evident that such a penetrating influence must be fraught with dangers.