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STATEMENT* We look upon the motion picture industry as a real ally to education. We use many of your pictures in our classrooms as instructional materials after they have served their theatrical use. We are impressed with the fact that these same pictures, while showing in the theatres, resulted in a tremendous amount of mass education. We are interested in mass education, too, for within these masses are the parents whose viewpoint and culture significantly affect the success of our school work. By Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C., concerning relationship of motion pictures to education, on visit to Disney and Motro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, April 18, 1950, released to Los Angeles and Hollywood Press.