Henry James Forman (February 17, 1879 – January 3, 1966) was an author famous for his 1933 book '' Our Movie Made Children'', which was a summary of the

Payne Fund Studies The Payne Fund Studies were a series of studies conducted to determine the effects of movies on the behavior of children and adolescents. They were paid for by The Payne Fund, a private foundation, and performed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Th ...

. The book has been described as an " alarmist tome", and was responsible for publicizing the study's more negative results.Doherty, p. 322; Massey, pp. 29–30; Jowett, Jarvie, and Fuller, pp. 94–95.

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Sources

*Doherty, Thomas Patrick. ''Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. *Jowett, Garth S., Ian C. Jarvie, and Kathryn H. Fuller. ''Children and the movies: media influence and the Payne Fund controversy''. Cambridge University Press, 1996. *Massey, Anne. ''Hollywood Beyond the Screen: Design and Material Culture''. Berg Publishers, 2000.

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Henry James Forman Papers, 1917–1957
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