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simultaneous impulses. Film strip and sequence cannot but
bow to this superior power. Our own youngsters have taken the
TV message to heart in their beatnik rejection of consumer
mores and of the private success story.
Since the best way to get to the core of a form is to
study its effect in some unfamiliar setting, let us note what
President Sukarno of Indonesia announced in 1956 to a large
group of Hollywood executives. He said that he regarded them
as political radicals and revolutionaries who had greatly
hastened political change in the East. What the Orient saw in a
Hollywood movie was a world in which all the ordinary people
had cars and electric stoves and refrigerators. So the Oriental
now regards himself as an ordinary person who has been
deprived of the ordinary man’s birthright.