Documentary News Letter (1940)

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15 TORY FILivIS FOR CHILDREIJ S-^rAe people oall it notion pictiire eppr-eoiation and corje in ocorn have celled it rot ion pict^,;rs depi'eoiaticn. Coll it v<iiiat you V/iil, the fact renains thet inan^T teaohers Lavo, in the last feV'j years, been reocirirriending their students to see. certain films at local cinemas and have tried to explain the value of bein^ choosy about fila-iS. h'.fore the war, ni.unerous teachers had '^one so far as to cocperacie ^^ith local cinsiT^'a mpijagers in organising spcial Liatinees of current films and irsny mana A;ei' s p-ladly helped. In soTiO areas te&cii^rs organisations ran city Vy*id3 and co'^nty Vviae schemes of special matinees. V/-r has disorganisad tjiese sche-ies as it has other edu^ cational pursuits out tuere is evide.tr:3e that the matinee or._i'ani sat ions -will soon get '1:0 v/ork ajain. The provision of educafcional and seni-educatioaal film displays has ceen officially discouraged "vxicre evacuees and schools are vvithin t;v.'0 miles radius of a public cinema and there has been a su/fgestion to increase this radius. Once miore this pieces the onus on tne teacher to £_ppreciate the filmis of the ordinary cinem.a. VJitliout film shov/s under his oviri control, he again finds hiriself in the position to encourage the !;.ocal cinema mansger to shovv the films i/vorthy of his apprecir tioji. Each month attention v/ill be dravm to a fev/ IILI.:5 OF TPS MOIvTH FOR GiilLDRFK and reasons vvill be given why the teacher Vvill find them useful, interesting, educational or perh-ps mxrely er t'.rte irmient . They vvill oe reviewed r^t the tim.e of their London premiere so that teechers all ov-.r the country can have their plans miadc by the tir.e of the general rele-'^se. Only films vi/hicn can be recoynmended -^vithout reserve v/ill be montioned. STAl'LEY Ai^iP L1VIN>1ST0^JE A Darryl Zanuck Production, directed 'oy Henry King, distributed by 20uu Gcn-cury Fox, Certificate U. THIS IS THE STORY OF J iMEl/SPAFER MAil .'ED OF ^E AFRICAN e:;.-pedition. It is not a "missionary film.''. The Livingstone part of the story is negligible and negligibly acted by Sir Gedric H'^^rdv^icke , Buc Spencer Tracy is fine, whether he is intervievving Red Indians in Wyoming or seeking the lost Livingstone in the darkest of dark Africa. There are ti>o climaxes in the f.ilm. : the first at the end of the African trail ?/Jien Tracy finds Livingstone, and the second wlien he confronts the Royal Jeograpmical Socie-cy with irrefutaole evidence of Livingstone's, being