A Word of Caution for the Intelligent Consumer of Motion Pictures

Abstract

FRANKLIN FEARING, professor of psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles, is a member of the editorial board of the Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television. He is directing the research of graduate students in the fields of social psychology and the problems of human communication. During the summer of 1951 he conducted graduate courses at Columbia University, and spoke at the Consumer's Union Conference at Vassar College. The following article is based on the talk Dr. Fearing delivered at the conference. Both his address and one given at the same meeting by Dallas W. Smythe, which appears on page lo9, will be published in a forthcoming volume, Consumer Problems in a Period of International Tension, Consumer's Union of the United States.