Show BRITISH DISCERN PROPAGANDA IN FILMS Englishmen Adjured to Beware of American Made Movies By Robert J. J Universal Service r Staff Correspondent Correa Correspondent Cor Cor- rea respondent n f. f LONDON AuG AUff 21 Is Ie Is Los An- An playing a a. not Insignificant part in the world plot to bring about the downfall of the tho BritIsh British Brit Brit- ish tab empire which has perturbed Lord Sir Edward Carson Carson Carson Car Car- son and other public men of these islands I IThe The average Englishman will willi probably think so after reading an article on the tho American film industry sent from rom Los Angeles Angel s by A A. Maurice Low the the- Washington Washing Washing- ton correspondent of or the Morning Post Mr irr Low notes that c certain American producers are opening studios loB in London for tor the tho production production pro pro- of ot films tUrns and asks Why should not tho the Englishman English English- man have havo his studio In Lo Los An- An gales no so o as to m make mke ke pictures In which the Englishman Is 18 not al always elways el- el ways made ridiculous on tho villain vil vii lain and md tho the American Is also the thep p perfect hero Formidable Danger I do not think ou our people people- tull fully realize the tho insidious propaganda propaganda ganda carried on In England through tho the American film or the tho really formidable danger it has become Am American n producers are aro not deliberately engaged in propaganda prop prop- anda possibly with one tion but tion-but but nevertheless 3 It Is propaganda and must mURt havo its Influence I I. I was immensely struck by this when I was In lit London last year ear In tho the various van vari OUR ous cinemas occasionally I found nn an English film but th the tho great majority were the the- flame same films I had seen econ In Washington and elsewhere else else- where whore The Tho motive was always the tho same me If Ir It was a play pIny founded on tho the war var it Jt was the English and French who were driven out of ot the tho trenches by the Germans and tho the Am Americans with the American flag who retook them If It It was a D. naval sc scene ne American battleships with tho the American flag whipping the breeze wore in th the thick of action It If it was a play appealing to heart interest the simple American n was always 8 a better man than the wearer of ot the he coronet Tho average English audience sensitive to Impression but careless care caie- less INI In It its thinking from the forc of ot constant suggestion may finally come como to believe that the tho I American Is la the better bettor man whIch Is not u it wholesome thing to encourage In the national In In- In terest It Why shout should not English ac ac- ac tons tors bo boo sent sont to America so 80 that tho the American can see sec the Eng Eng- lishman from a IL new aspect Why should not nol some somo of ot the beautiful count countryside of or England Regent street the Interior of or a world world- famous historical home be bo 1 the thc setting for tor an I English play ply to brt bl shown to American audiences It might put HO some me new Ideas Into the tho head of or the American II It I might mihl make mak him see that al although although I al- though the tho Englishman talks talk somewhat differently from the I American and and- uses an he Is not necessarily an ass asa ItI It might be bo tho the antidote to much vicious propaganda on tho the American Amer Amen I lean ican screen and In tho the American p refs |