Dizzy from watching a succession of "daring" foreign films made by shoestring producers, a movie critic in New York was heard to mumble, "I'm beginning to realize what a great service is being performed by all those new schools that teach you to read faster. After a short course, you can often read the foreign subtitles before the heroine gets her clothes back on"
- Sound of Laughter by Bennet Cerf
First published in 1970
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The accompanying cartoon has shows a film screen (some heads in the foreground watching in the cinema). The scene shows a close up of a couple in an intimate moment as the screenfilling subtitle reads:
But by working within the system to change the system don't you think that we are simply playing into the hands of the capitalist pigs who are exploiting the downtrodden masses whose lot, we as fellow members of the human race <text trails off in the cartoon>
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