Life — June 22, 1922 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page contains two distinct elements: **Top section:** A contest announcement for LIFE magazine readers to submit titles for a cover picture, with prizes ($500, $200, $100). Standard contest rules follow. **Bottom section:** A single-panel cartoon showing two children and an adult (likely a mother) in what appears to be a home setting. One child is explaining to the mother: "It's all right, Mother, I was just showing her what I saw in the movies, only she has no sense of humor." The joke's satire targets **parental anxiety about cinema's influence on children**—a genuine concern in the 1920s. The cartoon mocks both the child's casual dismissal of the mother's worry and the assumption that movie content automatically corrupts young viewers. The punchline suggests the other child simply lacks appreciation rather than moral corruption, undercutting fears about film's corrupting power through gentle comedy.