POWER OF THE SCREEN.
IN WAR AND PEACE. Speaking at a gathering in New York that included the then two Presidential candidates, Franklin 1). Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie, the film star, Robert Montgomery, declared*that the motion picture has great influence, adding: “Ln time of war, its power is second only to that of a military power; and in time of peace, its power is second to none.” “Good-bye. .Mr Chips,” was cited by Mr Montgomery as an example of a film containing the. three elements of entertainment, education, and propaganda. He said he believed the picture had an (dement of propaganda, because it brought to the audience “the courage, the sense of fair play, and the finer qualities of the British'people.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 112, 21 February 1941, Page 8
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