International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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family ; one goes to keep company with some one else, to be with one's pal, to find one's friends. We are sheltered from the weather there, and it is warm and they spray perfume in the halls. It is a pleasure that is easily procured. We can see a lot there at a small expense. The following are the various advantages of the cinema according to a boy of 13 : It interests me. It amuses me. I get to know plays and novels there. I go there to see horse racing. I go there to see other lands. I go there to see about the lives of abandoned orphans. It helps to pass the time when it is raining. Morality The following are some of the answers : « It is instructive, and certain dramas have a moral. The cinema often develops sentimental ideas, and there is always a moral at the end of the pieces. They teach that the wicked are always punished ». The answer of a little girl of 13 : « I like to go to the cinema very much, because I can travel with my eyes, I learn new things, and I see scenes of life which make me realize that it needs a lot of courage to climb the path we have to travel and go right to the end without complaining ». The answer of a boy of 13 : «I adore the cinema, it is my greatest pleasure. The cinema is a comfort in hours of anguish. It lightens our ccmmon sorrows, it draws together hearts that are disunited... it stimulates kindness ». Patriotism The patriotic element also plays its part. The following is a characteristic answer : « The war subjects are especially in 658