The Power of Cinema: Comprehensive Uses and Real Abuses in Modern Life
Notes: A popular medium of entertainment-gives relief to men tired with day's toil. Educative value-knowledge & information about manners and coustoms of various people, the development of the country-lessons in health hygiene, agriculture, etc. Evil effect-cinema going habit develops into a craze. ]
The cinema is a wonderful invention of science. It presents pictures of men and women behaving and talking as in real life.
In modern time the cinema has become the most popular medium of entertainment. Now-a-days man is busy earning his bread throughout the day. After the day's toil he feels very tired and longs for relief from the strain and monotony of daily work. The cinema provides him with this relief. In the evening he goes to a cinema-house and attends at a show to relax himself. The cinema has educative value too. It gives man much knowledge and information. The films show him the cities, towns and villages which he has not seen and enable him to learn the manners and customs of various peoples. The especial feature films produced by the government acquaint him with the agricultural, industrial and scientific developments of his country. The cinema is a good vehicle of educating the illiterate masses. The news-reels inform them of what happen in the world. Films on historical personages teach them history. Lessons on health, hygiene, and agriculture are imparted effectively to them through films.
But the cinema has its abuses. In going to satisfy man's thrist for pleasure film-producers make films intended mainly to appeal to the sex of the spectators. Such films havoc the moral character of man. Moreover, cinema-going habit often develops into a craze like gambling or drinking. The abuses of the cinema can however be easily remedied.
