Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-17 | Page 10 | American Films Alarm French

AN filMS AlARM fRH C U. U S. S Said to Be Colonizing Colonizing Colonizing ing Nation Through Movies r PARIS April 16 United Press Press Press- The United States is colonizing France Prance economically and culturally through the movies according to French thinkers and leaders of the French movie industry who have sounded a warning against the danger danger dunger dan dun ger of Francas Franca's dependence upon made American-made films This was but the thO latest outburst against the undoubted inroads made by American cultural and arid economic methods in France Almost protests have been heard heald against American sailors that have become just as much a part of Paris as of New York and San Francisco The Charleston sport clothing the cocktail cock- cock t tall tail il the indiscriminate use of Engish English English Eng Eng- lish ish words and terms which are declared to be ruining the tho French language and n finally the Am American rican bar which routed from America has taken refuge In Paris FOUR MILLION SE SEE FILMS Four million Frenchmen and French rench women and children go to the movies each week and they see principally American films itis It Itis itis is estimated The danger of this condition not only from the standpoint stand tand- point of the effect on the French movie industry but also from the point of view of the thc American In Influence influence In in- i fluence e on French minds has been brought to the att attention of Premier Poincare and Ministers 1 of Public lublic instruction In Instruction Instruction In- In Herriot and of Commerce by the the- Society for Film FlIm I Authors In Its letter to th the government leaders concerned the Society of ut Film FlIm Authors referred to a recent speech in the British parliament by Lord Newton to the effect that mat America through the propaganda of her movies was gradually persuading ing lag the entire world that the United States is the only country in the world counts The TI movi movies s constitute a II means of ot economic colonization said Louis Aubert president of the French Film syndicate syndicated Leon editor of the Intra- Intra says that every eve y week four million French people attend during an entire evening a veritable class of Am American culture URGES PROTECTION In a short while continued B ilby if it the government does docs not intervene there here will no longer r exist the slightest o ot obstacle to this colonization cob colo propaganda for the French Frenca film industry ruined by an lIe lle competition will be dead Bail y says that other countries England Germany and Italy by forced movie production and other o her measures are are taking nie means ns to d de defend do- do fend themselves against th the i invasion invasion inva inva- va- va sion sion of American an films arid and asks when France will vill take steps step's to pr protect protect pro pro- herself Protests also have been heen made against the large number of foreign plays on the Paris stage l A recent count stated that there were ty eight for foreign plays running in Paris