Cinema-Its Uses Abuses
Cinema is the popular name for motion picture which is made of a integrated series of innumerable photographs projected with the help of light on a celluloid screen.When sound is introduced along with the projection, the pictures reflected on the screen are found to talk and sing. Such pictures are called talkies. Cinema is, infect, the result of optic delusion.
No other invention of science has evoked so sharp difference of opinion than cinema because nothing else is so evenly divided between good evil. cinema is useful immensely useful to all classes of people, young and old, rich and poor, duffer and intellectual. It all depends, however, on how it is organized and for what purposes motion pictures are utilized.
A right kind of motion picture with an edifying theme is an invaluable source of delight and recreation which is so essential for mental and physical health. We get recreation also from other sources-books, radio, and the stage. But none else can give it so thoroughly, nor can absorb the mind so completely. That is why thousands and thousands throng around the cinema halls every day.
Cinema has also great educative value. Only the literate section of the people has access into books and papers. But all without exception can enjoy a cinema show and learn therefore. Besides, as the motion picture teach through entertainment, the mind receives the lessons quickly and easily.
In order to prevent the evils of cinema and to harness it to the higher needs of society, every country should have a board of cultured man with high to check the production of unhealthy picture. Instead of subjecting picture to post production censor, the story, the sceneries and the outlines of songs and dances should be got approved by that board. In short, every conceivable measure should be taken in sure that the power of the cinema may not be used to reap individual profit at the cost of social morality.
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