| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Introduction. By Will H. Hays | v | |
| I. | —The Movie’s New Significance | 1 |
| II. | —The Movie at its Birth | 19 |
| III. | —The Movie’s First Steps | 33 |
| IV. | —The Movie Goes to the Bad | 45 |
| V. | —The Movie Develops a Conscience | 59 |
| VI. | —The Movie and the Library | 69 |
| VII. | —The Movie’s Appetite for Plots | 81 |
| VIII. | —The Movie and the Continuity Writer | 93 |
| IX. | —The Movie Improves its Morals | 103 |
| X. | —The Movie Maketh—What Kind of a Man? | 115 |
| XI. | —The Movie and the Committee on Public Relations | 125 |
| XII. | —The Movie as a Pedagogue | 135 |
| XIII. | —The Movie Interpreting the Past | 145 |
| XIV. | —The Movie Takes on New Functions | 155 |
| XV. | —The Movie as a World Power | 165 |
| XVI. | —The Movie and the Censor | 177 |
| XVII. | —The Movie as a World-Language | 189 |
| XVIII. | —The Movie as the Hope of Civilization | 201 |
| Appendix A—Statistics Showing the Scope of the Motion Picture Industry | 215 | |
| Appendix B—The Screen as a New Life Giver to Literary Classics | 218 | |
| Appendix C—What Massachusetts Thinks of Motion Picture Censorship | 221 | |
| Appendix D—Significant Dates in the Evolution of the Motion Picture | 222 | |
| Appendix E—What the Movie has Done for a Great Railroad | 224 | |
| Appendix F—Facts and Figures Showing that the Screen has Become the First World Conqueror | 225 | |
| Appendix G—Members of the Committee on Public Relations Co-operating with Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. | 227 |