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501 1 | million in England, while the figure 800 million puts Italy in
502 1 | galley-slave" - can easily fill halls and coffers, evoke
503 1 | speaking and moving in places filled with sound and music. Spurred
504 [Title]| material and apparatus, of the film-studios, the cinema halls which,
505 1 | consideration of the principles of filmology or of psychology, which
506 2 | failures, their rise, or their final end. Though strictly historical,
507 1 | reference to the spectator, has, finally, a lofty and positive mission
508 1 | there by a vague hope of finding the contentment of their
509 2 | frequently has the pace of fine drama, the dark colouring
510 2 | is need of considerable finesse and depth of religious sentiment
511 1 | degree than from technical finish, the attractive force and
512 1 | a child, to youth in way fitted to it, to the adult as he
513 2 | from the shaping and the fixing of the limits of the matter
514 2 | Therefore the ideal film should flee from any form of apology,
515 1 | relaxation; perhaps also for flight into a dream world. Are
516 3 | power and authority, which flow from nature and from God.
517 2 | sands, the loveliness of flowers, the limpid quality of water,
518 1 | or the other field, and focuses on it the attention, the
519 2 | different races, customs, folklore, civilizations, and, more
520 1 | public, and as a norm to be followed. It is indeed true that
521 1 | everyday life, provided he follows his sound powers of reasoning,
522 3 | propagandistic in purpose, or even foment struggle, and serve a given
523 3 | perhaps fail to point out forcefully enough how profound is the
524 1 | which is indefinite, to foresee an action, to anticipate
525 1 | to the film for relief, forgetfulness, relaxation; perhaps also
526 1 | particularly if their spiritual formation is weak, are allowing themselves
527 | former
528 2 | consideration already set forth on the absolute nucleus
529 | forty
530 | found
531 2 | principal attraction is founded on truth, in so far as it
532 1 | in this universe; he must freely direct his actions in accordance
533 1 | halls and coffers, evoke frenzied applause, and assemble in
534 2 | The proof is given by the frequent production and the success
535 2 | light and enlivened by a fresh breath of art sufficient
536 1 | perhaps, to take him in a friendly embrace in a burst of admiration
537 3 | especially casting empty and frivolous disdain on the dignity of
538 2 | of ancient wisdom and the fruit of bitter experience.~Let
539 1 | research and analysis, the fruits of experimental psychology,
540 1 | image of each single duty to fulfil, at the base of which, as
541 3 | suffering any loss, can fulfill its role to the community'
542 1 | this: it will then have fulfilled a notable part of its function.~(
543 3 | earthly paradise in the fullest measure attainable here
544 2 | the stream of the original fullness of truth, goodness and beauty,
545 1 | fulfilled a notable part of its function.~(d) But the ideal film,
546 2 | the organic structure, the functional behaviour and the therapeutic
547 1 | exalted goal toward which, fundamentally, your ability and your vocation
548 2 | times by the irresistible fury of the ocean tempest, the
549 1 | that real and ideal are fused in perfect art form.~(c)
550 2 | led into temptation" (cf. Gal. 6, 1)"if you stand take
551 1 | the poet would call it "galley-slave" - can easily fill halls
552 1 | and likeness he was made(Gen. 1, 26). In man there is
553 2 | paths, and the conflicts it generates or by means of which it
554 1 | has become for the present generation a spiritual and moral problem
555 3 | the same time obliging, generous, intrepid.~An action film,
556 1 | to reality with the same gentleness that Nature employs in sleep.
557 1 | movements, as, for example, the gesture of a hand, a shrug of the
558 1 | is a privilege of artists gifted beyond the ordinary; certainly,
559 2 | tempest, the solitude of polar glaciers, the vast stretch of virgin
560 [Title]| activity of the Cinema, We are glad today to meet personally
561 1 | in the babe, as the first glimmerings of consciousness stir; in
562 2 | of apology, much less of glorification, of evil, and should show
563 3 | their souls, may always glow clear in the thoughts, the
564 3 | sacrifice.~All that can be gotten without many words, but
565 1 | to the fringe of life, governed, of course, by the common
566 3 | entrusted to her His truth and grace, that she may be the light
567 1 | the film was born; then gradually the film has taken control
568 1 | vocation summon you. God grant that all who are capable
569 1 | dictates the principles for granting or denying the answer to
570 2 | and of all peoples have grappled with this hard and thorny
571 1 | teleology not yet fully grasped. Man has been made lord
572 1 | darkness of its halls, and not gratuitously, crowds that are numbered
573 1 | To some, faced with the grave problems which harass the
574 2 | matter for its theme? The greatest poets and writers of all
575 1 | laws, i.e., its power to grip the mind through the enchantment
576 1 | spectacle will be all the more gripping in proportion to the degree
577 2 | describing its power and its growth, its open and hidden paths,
578 1 | sense of reality, and the guidance of his experience; but,
579 1 | sufficient to let oneself be guided in this also, by sound common
580 [Title]| influence in the thinking, the habits, the life of the countries
581 1 | shrug of the shoulders, a half-open door. ~The moving picture
582 1 | the conclusion, leaves the hall, more light-hearted, relaxed,
583 1 | special way placed in your hands? The charge of incompetence,
584 3 | she deserves. If it should happen - as not infrequently occurs -
585 1 | him. Often enough then it happens that the spectator, through
586 1 | the grave problems which harass the present age, and which
587 2 | have grappled with this hard and thorny theme, and will
588 1 | perceptible logic, or even through harmless deceit, to glimpse that
589 3 | common good through the harmonising of individual activity.~
590 2 | film can yield an abundant harvest in its three-fold realm,
591 II | a treatment of the first heading, and leave the second and
592 2 | processes for restoring him to health, offer objects of deep interest.~
593 1 | daily life and tasks of the hearers, with a fidelity We might
594 1 | give to him who sees and hears a sense of reality, but
595 3 | earthly life towards the heavenly country. ~Such a noble organism,
596 1 | emotional life, with its heights and depths; there is the
597 3 | to which some films have helped spread such an attitude,
598 3 | cooperation, and larger ideas, helping men, in the interest of
599 1 | mountain uplands through wooded hills down to broad plains baked
600 1 | intervention in order to hinder or check the most dangerous
601 3 | minds frequently begets hindrances or even repugnances, it
602 3 | by the Creator. The same holds for its necessary elements,
603 3 | the same time devoted to home and its intimacy, because
604 1 | driven there by a vague hope of finding the contentment
605 1 | experience shows. But not so the hostile and aggressive propaganda,
606 2 | s life in Egypt, in the house of Potiphar; from the Book
607 2 | communication, types of houses and residences in different
608 2 | movements from the primitive huts of leaves and branches and
609 1 | discerning person could ignore or deride your conscientious
610 1 | experiences, its hidden and ill-defined desires. Through the whole
611 1 | for a short time into the illusory world of dreams: but, after
612 1 | transfering the spectator into an imaginary world or, in a documentary
613 [Title]| halls which, if placed in imagination, in a single setting, would
614 1 | once light and profound, imaginative and real. In a word, it
615 1 | activation", in accordance with immanent laws, i.e., its power to
616 2 | some of them come almost immediately from the shaping and the
617 2 | whether in the heaven's immensity or in the intimate secret
618 1 | there is a spiritual and immortal soul! There is the universe
619 3 | characteristic mark, We implicitly affirmed the existence of
620 2 | and needed limitations are imposed in historical films which
621 2 | for example, the intrinsic impossibility of giving a visible representation
622 2 | of life and of man, and improve and elevate the soul.~Therefore
623 2 | in the end of having very inadequately satisfied his insatiable
624 1 | narration of an ordinary incident, there has come to be carried
625 1 | as has been noted, can incline the soul of the viewer to
626 3 | from God. Man, indeed, is inclined by nature, and hence by
627 2 | their development, which includes the movements from the primitive
628 1 | your hands? The charge of incompetence, of bias certainly could
629 1 | it is possible for him to increase the gifts of energy and
630 1 | of the motion picture is increased. ~Because of this inner
631 1 | to glimpse that which is indefinite, to foresee an action, to
632 2 | of modern cities.~These indications are enough to show that
633 3 | infrequent scandals, have induced not a few to belittle the
634 [Title]| also of the vast number of industrial plants which provide for
635 [Title]| profits - it returns to the industrialists. ~So, then, this world of
636 2 | attentive observer, reveals an inexhaustible wealth of goodness and beauty,
637 2 | for power, covetousness, infidelity, injustice, depravity --
638 2 | transparent sincerity the infinite superabundance of the perfection
639 3 | it should happen - as not infrequently occurs - that a film deals
640 1 | is striving with daring ingenuity to place the spectator amidst
641 1 | measure up to duty which is inherent in the nature of the human
642 2 | conditions in forests and in inhospitable deserts, on rivers and in
643 1 | itself enough. ~Private initiative and zeal can wane, and do
644 2 | covetousness, infidelity, injustice, depravity -- such, unhappily,
645 3 | from whom his soul and innermost being draw human perfection
646 2 | inadequately satisfied his insatiable thirst; yet there remains
647 2 | matter can be chosen and inserted, as a part of the whole
648 2 | described in stimulating, insidious or corrupting ways; if it
649 1 | sensibility and his own insight by the efforts he must make
650 1 | profit, through apparently insignificant but skilful movements, as,
651 2 | which offers itself to the inspection of the attentive observer,
652 2 | where to look for artistic inspiration and dramatic interest except
653 3 | the feelings, the deeds inspired by your art. ~With this
654 3 | and executed in a way that inspires in the spectator understanding,
655 3 | That can be done when state institutions or activities, such as the
656 3 | described above, would calm and instruct the mind, would lessen selfish
657 2 | case, whether films of an instructive nature are handled, or the
658 2 | in the individual film.~~INSTRUCTlONAL FILMS~ Taking each point
659 1 | as circumstances demand, instructs, delights, diffuses genuine
660 3 | very possibilities of human instruments of expression. Yet a basic
661 2 | again, and these sometimes insuperable, from the availability of
662 2 | to be accurate, clearly intelligible, carried out by a perfect
663 1 | enough, when the film is intended for a given profession or
664 3 | translates all that by lively and interesting plots, by perfect art forms,
665 2 | entirely practical nature interfere, which check the film maker
666 2 | films, which represent and interpret the life and behaviour of
667 1 | knows how to lead without interruption or shocks to the bright
668 3 | which often are repeated at intervals in the course of history,
669 2 | and history is bitterly interwoven with them. But it is one
670 3 | devoted to home and its intimacy, because she knows how to
671 1 | of our time, unreasonably intolerant of the intervention of public
672 3 | time obliging, generous, intrepid.~An action film, which translates
673 2 | representation of it is intrinsically impossible, or piety and
674 [Title]| considers the bulk of capital invested, the readiness with which
675 1 | and the unconscious. They investigate the film's influence not
676 1 | age, and which certainly invite Our most earnest solicitude,
677 2 | clear-sighted, his mind, turning inwards, is led to say "take heed
678 1 | on you. In the place of irrelevant or harmful shows present
679 3 | be inevitable and perhaps irremediable.~Thus the cinema, without
680 1 | there always remains that irresolvable absolute which dictates
681 [Title]| THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ITALIAN CINEMATOGRAPH INDUSTRY~(
682 1 | figure 800 million puts Italy in the third place. ~What
683 2 | Patriarchs: the story of Jacob, the events of Joseph's
684 1 | allowed to lead the weary and jaded spirit to the thresholds
685 1 | tendons and ligaments that join together and support the
686 [Title]| their great achievements is joined to a piercing anxiety for
687 2 | of Jacob, the events of Joseph's life in Egypt, in the
688 3 | things, always lively and jovial, but at the same time obliging,
689 2 | enough to recall the names of Judas, Caiphas, Pilate, Peter,
690 1 | determines a human person to judge and act is his own emotional
691 [Title]| INDUSTRY~(Audience of 21st June, 1955)~~Gentlemen: it is
692 3 | legislation, of admmistration, of justice, are touched on and are
693 1 | public authorities, fully justified by law to defend the common
694 2 | history, does not exalt or justify, but clearly urges the condemnation
695 1 | severe tests, but by the keen rivaliry established among
696 2 | together, it is necessary to keep present the consideration
697 1 | phenomenon. In the statistics kindly presented to Us, it is reported
698 2 | rejection, the tragic end of King Saul; or the fall of David
699 2 | the secrets of the animal kingdom, and are obtained by expert
700 2 | Potiphar; from the Book of Kings: the choice, the rejection,
701 2 | him the merit of having known how to divert to his advantage
702 3 | your talents, your daily labour. We would like now to close
703 2 | Examples of such films are not lacking, produced with the purpose
704 2 | systems, the traffic routes by land, sea and air, means of communication,
705 [Title]| terminology of their own in modern languages. One thinks also of the
706 1 | avoiding, of course, any lapse into vulgarity or unseemly
707 3 | need for cooperation, and larger ideas, helping men, in the
708 2 | frequently it would come too late, i.e. after the spectator
709 | latter
710 1 | authorities, fully justified by law to defend the common civil
711 1 | of them at the same time.~Leaving however to your judgement
712 2 | Holy Scripture, but are a legacy of ancient wisdom and the
713 1 | to combat them with the legal and moral weapons at their
714 3 | such as the provisions of legislation, of admmistration, of justice,
715 1 | spectator nourishes quite legitimately.~Under one form or another,
716 3 | instruct the mind, would lessen selfish and harmful attitudes
717 2 | affectation, every impression of a lesson learnt mechanically - since
718 1 | even reach a high artistic level. You will have the agreement
719 1 | can rise to high artistic levels, and be classed even as
720 1 | which the undisciplined liberty of the film would share
721 1 | answers to such questions lie the fundamental causes which
722 1 | as the foundation of all, lies that of disposing of himself
723 1 | were to cut the tendons and ligaments that join together and support
724 1 | conclusion, leaves the hall, more light-hearted, relaxed, and better within
725 2 | distinctive beauty of the Northern Lights, - visions all, which, reproduced
726 1 | Creator, in Whose image and likeness he was made(Gen. 1, 26).
727 1 | together and support the limbs and parts of his body.~An
728 2 | loveliness of flowers, the limpid quality of water, the violent
729 2 | CONTENT~ In tracing the lines of the ideal film with respect
730 1 | multiplicity of images, linked it is true by a slight guiding
731 3 | a ray of God. You, too, listen to their plea, and answer
732 3 | its praises may easily be listened to with a smile tinged with
733 1 | banning them; through the listing of films by appropriate
734 2 | novel, drama, tragedy, every literary work.~Even the Sacred Books
735 2 | a world in which people live as though God did not exist.
736 2 | stamp of an experience truly lived and as a result, capable
737 2 | the unusual artistic and liveliness of descriptions, which even
738 1 | of a scarcely perceptible logic, or even through harmless
739 1 | weakened by his struggles, looks primarily to the film for
740 3 | characteristics or suffering any loss, can fulfill its role to
741 2 | of the desert sands, the loveliness of flowers, the limpid quality
742 1 | respect for man is added loving understanding. Recall the
743 1 | has its high points and low, its rises and falls, it
744 1 | them accomplices of the lower instincts and passions which
745 1 | particularly from any share in a lowering of morals, and to present
746 3 | strengthen the sense of loyalty to the State, and promote
747 1 | passions which overthrow man, luring him from the precepts of
748 2 | Pride, unbounded ambition, lust for power, covetousness,
749 2 | exhausting days and months lying in wait and observing, carried
750 1 | has arrived at the almost magical power of summoning into
751 1 | in the cinema, as with a magician who can transform all at
752 1 | black-and-white" - appears like a magnificent stage performance. ~But
753 3 | firmly, and at the same time maintain and prove an unshakeable
754 1 | of being an aid to him in maintaining and rendering effective
755 2 | enchanted and overcome by the majesty of towering mountains, at
756 2 | interfere, which check the film maker on the threshold of the
757 1 | moves Us to exhort the makers and producers to spare no
758 1 | producing seductive films, by making them accomplices of the
759 [Title]| UNION OF CINEMA THEATRE MANAGERS AND OF THE INTERNATIONAL
760 3 | endure and wait, how to act manfully and firmly, and at the same
761 1 | moral heritage, is made manifest in various ways: through
762 1 | and beauty, as they are manifested in Nature, his social relations
763 2 | such, unhappily, are the marks of the characters and actions
764 2 | wrongdoing and guilt are not masked by deceitful veils, but
765 1 | its wide influence on the masses of men and even on moral
766 1 | struggle, he must always remain master. Let the film follow Nature
767 1 | photographic, but it is mastered and raised in such wise
768 3 | human race and of mankind. Masterpiece of the Creator's supreme
769 2 | point of view, are superb masterpieces. It is enough to recall
770 1 | more persons. A growing mastery of invention and of the
771 [Title]| for the production of the material and apparatus, of the film-studios,
772 1 | well-weighed judgement in matters concerning your own profession.
773 1 | from this principle would mean to make him incapable of
774 | Meanwhile
775 2 | and harmonious form, it measures up to the original and essential
776 1 | not reproduce reality in a mechanical way, nor does he subordinate
777 2 | impression of a lesson learnt mechanically - since true religious feeling
778 2 | must rule any like artistic medium: novel, drama, tragedy,
779 1 | this matter in this new meeting with the representatives
780 2 | stretch of virgin forests, the melancholy of the desert sands, the
781 3 | source of good for every member of the community, We now
782 3 | can and should be for its members: spouses, parents, children,
783 1 | and depravation, at the mercy of powerful and uncontrolled
784 2 | places of the world of the microscope.~It is not without emotions
785 II | every case, though in the midst of multiple and diverse
786 1 | Moreover, in general, the millions of people who flock to the
787 1 | There is the universe in miniature, with its multiplicity and
788 1 | might appear a subject of minor importance, and one not
789 1 | body, formed even to its minutest parts according to a teleology
790 2 | New Testaments, faithful mirrors of real life, contain in
791 1 | this reason it would be a mistake to give at the very beginning
792 3 | history, along with the modifications and adjustments brought
793 1 | technical and artistic needs modify and elaborate the form in
794 2 | at least in its great and momentous conflicts, if our eyes were
795 2 | especially in the most important moments; others again, and these
796 1 | evening of his crowded or monotonous day, feels the need to alter
797 1 | the man who, weary of the monotony of his life or weakened
798 2 | after exhausting days and months lying in wait and observing,
799 2 | dwellings, the architectural monuments, the lofty skyscrapers of
800 1 | not make an empty show of moralizing, but more than makes up
801 2 | been noted that even films morally above reproach can yet be
802 1 | any share in a lowering of morals, and to present to them
803 2 | sacred (even though they be motivated by objectively erroneous
804 1 | For there is indeed no motive whereby it can be excepted
805 1 | river-like, bear him from mountain uplands through wooded hills
806 2 | the majesty of towering mountains, at other times by the irresistible
807 1 | the Cinema", We propose, moved by the conviction of their
808 1 | agree on banning corrupt movies wherever they are shown,
809 II | though in the midst of multiple and diverse secondary elements,
810 [Title]| writers, directors, actors, musicians, workers, technicians and
811 3 | his fulfillment through a mutual exchange of good deeds,
812 | namely
813 1 | From the simple visual narration of an ordinary incident,
814 3 | concept of the family which is naturally correct and humanly noble,
815 1 | important branch of activity, so near to the realms of the spirit,
816 2 | considerations which of necessity restrict absolute freedom
817 1 | though technical and artistic needs modify and elaborate the
818 2 | future.~To such a question a negative answer is natural, whenever
819 | never
820 1 | assemble in the columns of some newspapers reviews which are too subservient
821 1 | man, with the dignity and nobility bestowed on him by the Creator,
822 3 | woman, in the worthiest and noblest sense of the word, wife
823 | none
824 1 | sound common sense. In the normal human being, indeed, there
825 3 | and in accordance with her norms.~Using the artistic resources
826 2 | distinctive beauty of the Northern Lights, - visions all, which,
827 1 | view the past with regret, nostalgia, repentance, and examines
828 2 | to giving the essential notions.~And yet, if one takes account
829 II | the accidental. Actually, notwithstanding the affirmation of relativity,
830 1 | those which the spectator nourishes quite legitimately.~Under
831 2 | set forth on the absolute nucleus contained within the relativity
832 1 | gratuitously, crowds that are numbered by the billions? What is
833 2 | and death of Absalom and numberless other happenings.~Their
834 3 | own small world, refuge, oasis, earthly paradise in the
835 2 | escape the control of the objective, which cannot be reduced
836 2 | though they be motivated by objectively erroneous thoughts and feelings).~
837 3 | activity.~Men, therefore, are obliged to acknowledge, accept and
838 3 | jovial, but at the same time obliging, generous, intrepid.~An
839 1 | spectators. With careful observation devotees of this science
840 2 | inspection of the attentive observer, reveals an inexhaustible
841 2 | months lying in wait and observing, carried out in uncomfortable
842 2 | animal kingdom, and are obtained by expert photographers
843 [Title]| other times and on different occasions We have directed careful
844 2 | every religious action or occurrence can be transferred to the
845 3 | happen - as not infrequently occurs - that a film deals with
846 2 | irresistible fury of the ocean tempest, the solitude of
847 [Title]| DISTRIBUTORS~(Audience of 28th October, 1955) ~~~
848 | off
849 2 | the Sacred Books of the Old and New Testaments, faithful
850 1 | it is sufficient to let oneself be guided in this also,
851 3 | mother of stainless conduct, open-minded, capable within and without
852 2 | harmonious paths of creation, opened by the physical and biological
853 1 | a vast field in which to operate; there is emotional life,
854 2 | belief is a suitable or opportune topic for a plot-film.~Examples
855 II | another Audience, if the opportunity arises.~~
856 2 | piety and reverence are opposed to it. Moreover, religious
857 2 | feeling is essentially the opposite of external show, and does
858 3 | earth if the family, as ordained by God, were destroyed?
859 2 | understanding of life and its proper ordering, of self-control, of enlightenment
860 2 | man himself, in whom the organic structure, the functional
861 3 | heavenly country. ~Such a noble organism, which embraces a whole
862 3 | exchange of good deeds, to organize a social body in accordance
863 2 | religiously different in their orientation, there is need of considerable
864 [Title]| art of the Cinema in its origins and its effects becomes
865 | otherwise
866 | Ours
867 | Ourselves
868 1 | a clear and transparent outline of the tale or picture.
869 1 | for the better.~We have outlined, gentlemen, an ideal without
870 3 | merely servilely adopt that outlook to satisfy such desires,
871 2 | harmony between these, remains outside the ideal region.~It is
872 2 | content, in order to avoid over-stepping the limits with unsuitable
873 1 | instincts and passions which overthrow man, luring him from the
874 3 | and the State, does not owe its origin to nature, but
875 2 | narrative frequently has the pace of fine drama, the dark
876 2 | real life, contain in their pages stories of evil, of its
877 1 | be seen in the enchanting parables of Holy Scripture: their
878 3 | refuge, oasis, earthly paradise in the fullest measure attainable
879 1 | conclusion, just as it would paralyse him if one were to cut the
880 2 | actuate an ever more extensive participation in Being itself. It is true
881 3 | political films, those of parties, classes and such, which
882 1 | importance, it cannot be passed over by those who have at
883 2 | deep interest.~If then one passes to the works of man, subjects
884 1 | influence not only as it is passively received by the viewer,
885 [Title]| devoted to it, in order as Pastor of the Flock to open Our
886 2 | Or from the age of the Patriarchs: the story of Jacob, the
887 1 | special attention which We pay to it. Certainly it seems
888 3 | with that effectiveness peculiar to it, his activity can
889 1 | on the surface and do not penetrate very deeply, provided that
890 1 | the thread of a scarcely perceptible logic, or even through harmless
891 1 | with its numerous powers, perceptions and feelings; there is the
892 1 | great storms alternate with periods of marvellous sunshine;
893 2 | in the plot-films, is it permitted to take religious topics
894 1 | for what will befall the personages who have already become,
895 1 | and to present to them in perspective the unsullied regions of
896 1 | common good, who are rightly persuaded that every human problem,
897 2 | answer is natural, whenever perversity and evil are presented for
898 2 | Judas, Caiphas, Pilate, Peter, Saul. Or from the age of
899 1 | quite new and remarkable phenomenon. In the statistics kindly
900 2 | know evil, and to seek from philosophy and religion its explanation
901 2 | and are obtained by expert photographers and producers after exhausting
902 1 | a fidelity We might call photographic, but it is mastered and
903 1 | understanding. Recall the touching phrase of Our Lord: "I have pity
904 1 | action to suggest words and phrases. This procedure, which modern
905 2 | creation, opened by the physical and biological sciences,
906 [Title]| achievements is joined to a piercing anxiety for the fate of
907 2 | names of Judas, Caiphas, Pilate, Peter, Saul. Or from the
908 1 | phrase of Our Lord: "I have pity on this people" (Mark, 8,
909 3 | Paternal Apostolic Blessing. ~~ PIUS PP. XII ~ ~
910 1 | wooded hills down to broad plains baked by the sun.~Thus vary
911 [Title]| vast number of industrial plants which provide for the production
912 3 | political community, can play a part in attaining the
913 1 | note of the important part played in it by the laws of psychology,
914 3 | You, too, listen to their plea, and answer their expectations,
915 3 | of heaven, and as their pledge We give you, from the depths
916 2 | large scale, are equally plentiful. Those films are appropriately
917 1 | wearied by reality, and plunges him for a short time into
918 1 | more so as the film - the poet would call it "galley-slave" -
919 2 | its theme? The greatest poets and writers of all times
920 2 | tempest, the solitude of polar glaciers, the vast stretch
921 1 | which he has frequently pondered over deep within himself,
922 1 | and examines himself and ponders events as only he can who
923 [Title]| particularly among the poorest classes, for whom the Cinema
924 1 | importance and the wide popularity of the Cinema. ~The first
925 3 | that task, and perform it, portraying and spreading a concept
926 1 | love of the lofty natural position conferred on him by his
927 1 | always do the spectators possess or preserve the spiritual
928 1 | but also of all groups possessed of calm judgement and a
929 2 | in Egypt, in the house of Potiphar; from the Book of Kings:
930 3 | Apostolic Blessing. ~~ PIUS PP. XII ~ ~
931 3 | short span of years, has practically given our century its characteristic
932 1 | of men and even on moral practices, it has drawn the attention
933 [Title]| Our heart to them in which praise for their great achievements
934 3 | can dispense: hence its praises may easily be listened to
935 1 | good use, therefore, that pre-eminence and authority which your
936 1 | development of the Cinema. It preceded the film, and first made
937 1 | man, luring him from the precepts of his sane thinking and
938 2 | for treatment.~Now it is precisely in the choice of content
939 2 | element of the triad which predominates in the individual film.~~
940 3 | it received the laws, the prerogatives, the duties which open for
941 3 | good of that community.~We prescind, therefore, in Our remarks
942 3 | consists in the realization and preservation of the true common good
943 1 | the spectators possess or preserve the spiritual energy, the
944 1 | a brief respite from the pressure of real existence. However,
945 2 | beauty. The film cannot presume, nor should it run the risk
946 1 | by his struggles, looks primarily to the film for relief,
947 2 | yet completely calmed: the prime requisite here is truth,
948 2 | includes the movements from the primitive huts of leaves and branches
949 2 | as its end, of which the principal attraction is founded on
950 2 | as it were, across the prism of consciousness, of the
951 1 | spectator remains truly a prisoner of the world unfolding before
952 1 | existence the ideal film is a privilege of artists gifted beyond
953 1 | some, faced with the grave problems which harass the present
954 1 | words and phrases. This procedure, which modern directors
955 1 | development; it is this which procures him, in some degree, the
956 1 | qualities, which perform the prodigy of transfering the spectator
957 2 | order not to offend and profane what men hold sacred (even
958 1 | too, the director draws profit, through apparently insignificant
959 1 | moving picture find its profoundest explanation in the internal
960 1 | are presented; he who was promised the picture of a story or
961 3 | loyalty to the State, and promote its progress. Such a film
962 2 | beguiled and entrapped by evil promptings.~Such are the points We
963 1 | the hostile and aggressive propaganda, which frequently draws
964 3 | classes and such, which are propagandistic in purpose, or even foment
965 1 | understands and values properly all these things; but it
966 1 | all the more gripping in proportion to the degree in which it
967 1 | of serious consideration proportionate to its effects. In a tomorrow
968 [Title]| have attained remarkable proportions, giving, as it were, an
969 1 | World of the Cinema", We propose, moved by the conviction
970 2 | difficult to present the end proposed in action films that is
971 3 | helpful to all, what truly protects and aids them in the community
972 3 | activities, such as the provisions of legislation, of admmistration,
973 2 | or of piety, or even of prudence and the safeguarding of
974 1 | by analyzing its related psychical "activation", in accordance
975 1 | turn Our attention to the psychico-personal element, to draw from it
976 1 | narrative - these, too, based on psycological laws - the first of which
977 1 | alone, or made dependent on purely economic interests? ~The
978 2 | aura of uprightness and purity, produced by an author,
979 2 | solely for instructional purposes are relatively rare; more
980 1 | concerning your own profession. Put to good use, therefore,
981 1 | truly the high office of putting the great possibilities
982 1 | examining boards, which qualify them according to merit
983 2 | core of which are religious quarrels not yet completely calmed:
984 [Title]| and attractive means of quenching the natural thirst for knowledge
985 1 | and do in fact wane rather quickly, as experience shows. But
986 3 | and channel of the human race and of mankind. Masterpiece
987 2 | which describe the different races, customs, folklore, civilizations,
988 3 | which the Church emerges radiant in her title of "Holy Mother
989 1 | Cinema, in order to help raise it to the dignity of an
990 1 | but it is mastered and raised in such wise that real and
991 2 | purposes are relatively rare; more usually, perhaps out
992 3 | beautiful: in a word, a ray of God. You, too, listen
993 1 | the same time, and even reach a high artistic level. You
994 1 | them until it has at length reached the point where it demands
995 1 | the process of action and reaction produced by viewing the
996 2 | mind and what psychological reactions are thereby produced. The
997 1 | withdrawn, particularly if it reacts with consequences beyond
998 [Title]| of capital invested, the readiness with which it is offered,
999 1 | and which often finds a ready ally in the inner man, i.e.,
1000 3 | demands of plot, or even sober realism make it necessary to present
1001 3 | goal, which consists in the realization and preservation of the