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Record #89

Date:: 14/07/1923
Record Type:: Report
From/By:: Col. Jason S. Joy
To:: MPPDA (Committee on Public Relations)
Reel:: Reel 1
Frame Start:: 1-0207
Frame End:: 1-0210
Legacy ID:: 89
Legacy Year:: 1923
Legacy Index:: MPPDA - Public Relations Committee
Comments:: Additional text in Transcription.

Meeting on books and films, use of films in prisons. Discussion by the Committee concerning adaptation of books by well-known authors to the screen: suggestion for screen credits, etc. Mr Mullin, of Goldwyn Pictures, explains that a great many eminent authors, so called, have failed because they have refused to take the screen seriously - have refused to recognize it as another medium of expression and attempted to apply to the writing of their original screen stories the same methods they use in writing stories and novels. A study is being made of the use of films in penal institutions.