Educational Aspect Of Unusual Film

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 248, 24 October 1934, Page 5

Educational Aspect Of Unusual Film

RELEASE IS SPONSORED BY SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS

(Palace, Screening To-day.)

Devotees of the motion picture ■will find something different m film entertainment in ‘‘Damaged Lives,” the Weldon Production, which is sponsored by the various Social Hygiene Associations of the world.

Hero is a picture which is not. only a dramatic portrayal of intense interest, but it also conveys a definite lesson of the danger lurking for the thoughtless. It tells iu gripping fashion .of a young boy who, just prior to his mairiage, foolishly, and almost innocently, allows himself to be beguiled into a fleeting affair. When she later discovers that she has, unknown to herself, been infected with a serious disease, she fears for the boy’s health and warns him, and then, in despair, commits suicide. Now married, the boy is horrified to learn from his physician that he also has contracted tho disease and. transmitted it to his wife, and that it may imperil the health of tho baby. -The working out of their salvation by their doctor is at one and the same time, excellent screen entertainment, and a definite message of hope to those already victims, or others who might later contract it. . It is because of its true educational value that the Social Hygiene Associations have given this picture their unI qualified endorsement, and are working tirelessly in an effort to have everyone over 16 years of age to sec it, as well as the supplementary reels, made under the supervision 'of Association executives. Tho additional picture deals frankly but with commendable tact and delicacy, with physiological facts having to "do with the contraction, effects, and euro of such diseases.

■ “Damaged Lives’’ has the approval and support of leading physicians, health officers, welfare workers all over the country, and merits success. The Racial Hygiene Association of New South Wales, under whoso auspices the film and the very frank illustrated lecture by Dr. Gordon Bates will be shown, take much pleasure in being able to announce that this very human and unusual film will be shown at Palmerston North for a special season. “Damaged Lives” is not suitable for children under 1G years of age. .