FILM TASTES
WHAT CHILDREN LIKE AND DISLIKE. PREFER G. MEN STORIES. HATE HORRIFIC PICTURES. ' . j . ! ‘ . NO TIME FOR MAE WEST OR GRETA GARBO. 1 : (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). (Received July 12, 6 p.m.) LONDON, July 11. William Farr, acting-manager of the .British Film Institute, has compiled an analysis of juvenile taste in films. He has discovered that children profor those featuring G. men and dislike Mao West and Greta Garbo because they have never met anyone the lea-1 liko them and are unable to imagine that such people really exist. They hate horrific films of the Frankenstein type, fighting, sudden noise, and close-ups of killings and kissings.. Children liko to be excited, not frightened. Adventure stories built around air pilots and sailors graftly interest them. They dislike dialogue. intricate plots, musical films, the interrupting o faction with songs, dances and stories, and the falsifying of well-known history.
The headmaster of Ihillcrsen school after a similar investigation, has reached tho same conclusion. He discovered that children liked adventure, happy endings and right triumphing over wrong, but love scenes made them laugh and scenic beauty 'oft them cold.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12911, 13 July 1936, Page 5
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187FILM TASTES Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12911, 13 July 1936, Page 5
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