THIRD-RATE FILMS
"The plain vulgarity of some films," said Mr A. C. Cameron, secretary of the City of Oxford Education Committee,, in a recent speech, " does little harm. It is the steady stream of third-rate films, with their sentimental and shallow emotional standards of value, dealing with unreal people, which do the harm. A great number of unaffected and cultured people are going not only to high-brow film societies but to the ordinary public cinemas. The cinema is gaining prestige. Many of the comedies and farces which people scoff at are among the best acted, best photographed and cleanest entertainments which the cinema provides. If the standard of public taste is to be raised we must begin with the children. Our problem is how to use this modern medium to develop the intelligence of a generation which is becoming cinemaminded."
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3181, 24 May 1932, Page 3
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