STIMULANT NOT SEDATIVE.
EFFECT OF FILMS ON CHILD MIND. COMMISSION MAKES SUGGESTIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, June IQ. ■The Commission on Educational and Cultural Films advises the establishment of a National Film Institute, which would create an Advisory Committee, including representatives of the learned societies, educational associations, the Dominions, and India, with the object of influencing public ■opinion in the appreciation of good films.
Referring to the effect on child education, the report expresses the opinion that film are a stimulant not a sedative. There is much muddled thinking over the effect of films on children to-day, who are equally entitled to their “crooks,” as yesterday’s generation was to bandits.. Slapstick comedy, miscalled “vulgar,” is healthy 'and delights .children. The report urges the establishment of films in schols and also special programmes for children, the interchange of films between Britain and the Dominions to aid mutual understanding, Empire teaching and trade publicity.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 June 1932, Page 5
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