CHILDREN AND FILMS
HOMELAND COMMITTEE’S REPORT [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. June 11, 9 a.m.) LONDON, June 10. The Commission on Educational cultural films advises the establishment of a National Film Institute which will create an advisory committee, including representatives of learned societies, educational associations, the i Dominions and India, with the object of influencing public opinion in appreciation of good films. Referring to the effect on child education, the report expresses the opinion that films are a stimulant not a sedative. There is much muddled thinking over the effect of films on children to-day, who were equally entitled to their crooks, as yesterday’s were to bandits. Slapstick comedy, miscalled as vulgar, is healthy and delights the children. The report urges the establishment of films in schools, also special programmes for children, and the interchange of films in Britain and Dominions to aid mutual understanding, Empire teaching, and trade publicity.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1932, Page 7
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