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/. /. E. C. Enquiries
YOUNG PEOPLES' IMPRESSIONS OF WAR FILMS
The elaboration of I. l.E.C. enquiries and the entire legislative section of the Review are in the hands of Dr. GlUSEPPE DE Feo, Councillor at the Court of Appeal, appointed representative of the Ministry of Justice at the I. I.E.C.
AVANT-PROPOS
The question of war films and their influence on young people is still far from having been properly discussed. The I. I. E. C. has dealt with it in this Review both in signed articles and in editorial notes but these could naturally form no definite conclusion. The question is too large for decisive treatment in newspapers or ordinary Reviews. As we said in our June issue, it is possible that the International Commission of Intellectual Cooperation (League of Nations) may be persuaded to deal with the matter throughly and examine all its aspects.
It seems to us opportune to note the results of an enquiry held in the pages of the Revue du Cinema, Paris, and commented upon in The Eclair of Montpellier (issue of May 11th, 1931) by Pierre Emsey. This enquiry purposed collecting the opinions of various well known people on the value of war films. It was absolutely non-official and was not fully representative of opinion throughout the world of the Cinema but was of incontestable value in that, with the names it contains it gives good idea of the effect war films have upon the public minds.
M. Pierre Emsey very rightly remarks in this connection that the true war film has no thesis nor is it partial but in it, war, while represented as a destroyer of men, is also connected by the author with those men who do their duty without comment and find some slight satisfaction in the fact that they know war will destroy them. They are neither proud nor too humble, warriors nor cowards, heros conscious or not, in fact simply men with all the complexity which Montaigne has attached to them.
Such is M. Emsey 's opinion on what the war film should be. Let us