The film industry was formed in the 1890s in New York and Chicago. The industry invented the first motion-picture shows. Throughout the years, more people from those cities began to pay attention to films and began enjoying watching it. Films were becoming the most popular entertainment. Every city had one or more theaters and tons of people attend those theaters. It beame a great way to socialize and see how successful the film industry had become. Even though the industry became popular, it provided detrimental influence on children, so censorship was created to protect those films by either editing the inappropriate scenes in the film or rejected films to premiere.
According to the children in the cities of Chicago and New York, they believed that the shows played in theaters were real and they should mimic it. In the article, “ The House of Dreams”, the author, Jane Addams, mentioned that youth believed that “views the deeds of the hero simply as a forecast of his own future and it is this fascinating view of his own career which draws the boy to shows of all sorts. They can scarcely be too improbably for him, portraying, as they do, his belief in his own prowess” (pg. 78). Type of movies about revenge, romance, drama, and action heroes, interest the youth, so Addams believed that the youth could not tell if the shows are real or not. As a result, “ An eminent alienist of Chicago states that he has had a number of patients among neurotic children whose emotional natures have been so over-wrought by the crude appeal to which they had been so constantly subjected in the theaters, they have become
victims of hallucination and mental disorder” (92). Only were children suffering from mental issues from those movies but, those movies also showed what the children should do and that would be there future.
In the end, films caused crimes and chaos in the cities. One example that a child committed a crime was stealing “ a...