He read Science and Life and discovered a wonderful excerpt from the Journal of Knowledge of 1912:
Unfortunately, the cinema, which was intended by the inventors mainly for purely scientific and educational purposes, in the hands of predatory entrepreneurs has become a means of easy earnings. In order to tear away an extra penny from the public, they offer her wild scenes of robbery and violence instead of decent paintings of educational significance. In the best case, the program of the paintings - harmless funny events, in the worst - dirty cynical scenes, from which every little morally pure person turns away. Ninety-nine hundred of the cinematic paintings thrown into the market consist of robberies, murders, bloody dramas and spicy scenes. To the honor of the Americans, it should be noted that the pornographic nature of the pictures, so common in Russia, and in France even predominant, in America is completely unacceptable. There, cinema is only reasonable entertainment and a means for scientific and educational purposes.