CHILDREN’S VERDICT.
DISLIKES IN FILMS. LONDON, July 11. Mr William Farr, acting-manager of the British Film Institute, has cornpiled an analysis of juvenile taste in films.
He discovered that children prejer those featuring G-men and di.-h'ke Mae West and Greta Garbo localise they have never met anyone in the least like them, and are unable to imagine that such people really exist. They hate horrific films of the Frankenstein type of fighting, sudden noise, and close-ups of killings and hissings. Children like to be excited, not frightened. Adventure stories, built around air pilots and sailors greatly interest them. They dislike dialogue, intricate plots, musical films . interrupting action with songs and dances, a.-.', stories falsify .’-g well-kn jtt u Ins ' vy.
The headmaster of Battersea School, after a similar investigation, reached the same conclusion. He found that children liked adventure and happy endings with right triumphing over wrong, but love scenes made them laugh and scenic beauty left them cold.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 7
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159CHILDREN’S VERDICT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 7
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