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FILMS FOR FILM FORUMS AND ADULT GROUPS
shown and to overcharge the scenes with emotion. However, some films that have been released as a result of the two ventures noted above have already demonstrated beyond doubt that this approach can be an effective aid to discussion in certain subject areas.
By and large, documentary films are still the easiest to adapt to discussion purposes. Some of the more recent ones, like Children of the City, that admirable investigation of juvenile delinquency in a large industrial city, Whoever You Are, which explores the problem of intolerance in a neighborhood in New York City's West Side, and And So They Live, that moving, beautifully filmed "report" on family life and education in the Kentucky mountains, betray considerable evidence of progress in the direction of "forcing the audience to resolve the film situations, and pointing out alternate possibilities calling for a choice."1
Film Forum Leadership
Whether or not an audience succeeds in "resolving the film situations" that are presented, or whether it fully understands the "alternate possibilities" that are implicit in a forum film, will depend upon how skillfully it is led in the discussion that follows the showing of the picture. And in this connection it should never be forgotten that in a film forum it is what happens after a film is shown that counts.
Etta Schneider Ress, in her doctoral study of library film forums2 conclusively demonstrates that "All of the principles that would apply to a good forum must apply to a film forum," and she adds that, of these, the utilization of competent discussion leadership is beyond doubt the most important. From the moment the lights go on after the film showing, the success or failure of the film forum rests largely in
1 "Producing Discussible Films" by Sherman Price. In Flm Forium Review, Fall 1946, p. 19.
2 "Film Forums in a Public Library," Teachers College, Columbia University, 1944, unpublished ms.
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