APPENDIX G—MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE 227 ON PUBLIC RELATIONS CO-OPERATING WITH MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA, INC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ That Marvel—The Movie CHAPTER I THE MOVIE’S NEW SIGNIFICANCE _Civilization in Peril—Leaders of Thought give Warning—Mankind Repeats Old Errors—Needs a Universal Language—The Motion Picture the Only Esperanto—Can the Screen Save the Race?—Why a History of the Movies is of Crucial Importance._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER I THE MOVIE’S NEW SIGNIFICANCE WITH striking unanimity contemporary writers dealing with the problems vexing humanity to-day express amazement at the fact that the race has learned so little from its variegated past, that age after age it commits, under new conditions and with changes in terminology, ancient blunders resulting, as they did aforetime, in the tragedies of war, revolution, famine, epidemics and poverty. As of old, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse periodically sally forth, to have their evil way with men; more potent, through long practice, in their iconoclasm, as they have proved in recent years, than they were in the days of our ancestors. The individual, unless he be a moron, learns lessons from experience, avoids committing errors that marred his past and may become, eventually, worthy the name of a civilized, even a highly civilized, being. But there are many experts in mob psychology who despondently assert that, while the individual may demonstrate his well-nigh infinite superiority to his jungle progenitors, the seeming progress of the race as a whole has been merely illusory, that mankind is inherently as savage to-day as it was countless centuries ago.