been hit very hard by this new medium. Even the comic books 
have declined greatly. Before TV, there had been much concern 
about why Johnny couldn’t read. Since TV, Johnny has acquired 
an entirely new set of perceptions. He is not at all the same. 
Otto Preminger, director of Anatomy of a Murder  and other 
hits, dates a great change in movie making and viewing from 
the very first year of general TV programming. “In 1951,” he 
wrote, “I started a fight to get the release in motion-picture 
theatres of The Moon Is Blue  after the production code 
approval was refused. It was a small fight and I won it.” 
(Toronto Daily Star , October 19, 1963)

     He went on to say, “The very fact that it was the word 
‘virgin’ that was objected to in The Moon Is Blue  is today 
laughable, almost incredible.” Otto Preminger considers that 
American movies have advanced toward maturity owing to the