CHILDREN’S PICTURE SHORTS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25364, 11 December 1947, Page 4

CHILDREN’S PICTURE SHORTS

Sir,—Can the manager of J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd., tell me more about the instructive shorty such as “The Magic Globe,” which I gm told are now being shown all over Britain on Saturday mornings for children. Could we have the same kind of thing here?—Yours, etc.. ANXIOUS MOTHER. November 21. 1947. [This letter was referred to Mr R. J. Kerridge. managing director of the Kerridge-Odeon theatrical organisation, the reply being: “I am very happy to be able to assure 'Anxious Mother’ that ‘The Magic Globe’ series will be released through the Young New Zealand Club (operated by KerridgeOdeon) as soon as they are received in the country. The Children’s Film Department, set up by Mr J. Arthur Rank, under the chairmanship of Miss Mary Field, is charged with the resnonsibility of producing films especially for children. Many of the films are already in the country, and have been enthusiastically commented upon by those critics and youth welfare executives privileged to see them at previews. Educationists, particularly, have been lavish in their praise of what has so quickly been achieved by Mr Rank.”]