Excerpt from George Kleine's Cycle of Film Classics: Spartacus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Quo the Last Days of Pompeii, Othello, the Lion of Venice, Vanity Fair
Until recently the introduction of half a reel of purely educational material into a fiction program of four or six reels brought emphatic complaint. My patrons want to be entertained - not in structed, was a bit of phraseology familiar to all old-line manufacturers, and particularly so to us, because of our constant activities in this field, our exceptional facilities as an importer and our unshaken confidence in the recognition we were sure would come.
Active strides have been made during the past three years. Influential individuals who hitherto had shown but little interest in the cause of bet ter films began systematic campaigns pointing out the great teaching values of the motion picture.
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