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  • The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies.

    "My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. October 29, 1947.
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