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may be kept one day only, and mostly are one reel long. It is impossible to comment on films from a catalogue, but it is hoped that a member of Close Up staff may be able to view certain of them during the autumn, when a fuller review can be given. One does not need to wait, however, to decide that the idea of these films is basically excellent, and that here is the best and perhaps the only means to build up a systematic circulation of films valuable in interest and education. The haphazard and half-hearted efforts in educational films so far achieved have succeeded only in creating prejudices against them, whereas the really instructive film could and should have the highest value both in interest and entertainment. For if we are really interested there is the highest form of entertainment. A good simple film dealing with the mechanism of a motor car (to take one example) must be invaluable to all learners, for it cannot be denied that far too few people even among car owners are the least aware of how their motor runs, or of what to do when it wont. For films of this description there is an ever widening field.
Abwege (Crisis).
Erda film. Direction G. W. Pabst. Featuring Brigitte
Helm, Jack Trevor, Herthe van Walter.
Pabst's extraordinary directorial gifts are here lent to the story of a marital misunderstanding. There has grown, not unjustifiably, the opinion that anything by Pabst must be right. But we must begin our review with several criticisms before passing on to praise.
Firstly, the scenario. Just as much as that of Joyless
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