FILM AND THE NATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 66285, 2 October 1925, Page 7

FILM AND THE NATION.

The mingled crude sensationalism and sentimentality of the American film may meet with approval or disapproval. The important point is that it is not British in sentiment. While this is a sufficiently serious objection in this country it is a much graver objection in the Dominions, where preservation of a British atmosphere, particularly among tne rising generation, is a matter of Imperial concern. What course the British film industry itself, with its existence at stake, means to adopt has not, so far, been made clear; but it is obvious that on all accounts —material, aesthetic, and patriotic—the industry and the public should be at one that so potent an influence in this country as the film ought not to be so largely of foreign origin and character. —“The Scotsman.”