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Review of periodicals and newspapers
Review of Periodicals and Newspapers.
In a conference held at the Ladies' Club of Ottawa, Mrs S. Baldwin indicated the cinema as a field in which woman's beneficent action can be profitably exercised, especially in preventing children from witnessing immoral spectacles, in the interest of both the families and society itself. (The New York Times, 16-VIII-1932).
The Motion Pictures Research Council of the United States has begun the publication of a report on the results of its inquiry on the influence exercised by the cinema on young people. This is the first of a series of inquiries for which the organ in question was constituted five years ago. The other points to be made the subjects of inquiries are : the international influence of the cinema in favour of world peace and the organization of the cinematographic industry from the social point of view. (The Times, London, 17-VIII-1932).
The directors of the London Council Schools have drawn the attention of the County Council to the much discussed problem of the influence exercised by the cinema on children, and have urged the adoption of rules which will exclude once and for all children from spectacles in which films classed in category A are projected. These are films recognized by the British Board of censors as unsuitable for children. (Today's Cinema, London, 18-VIII-1932).
The Rev. W. Younger, President of the Methodist Conference, in a speech delivered at Blyth, maintained that the contin
ued increase in divorces was due to the influence of the cinema. (The DAILY TELEGRAPH, London, 26-VIII-I932).
Results of an inquiry recently held in London on the attendance at the cinema of children from 3 to 15 showed that 13,5 % do not frequent the cinema at all, 9 % twice a week, while 48 % go irregularly. Of children under five years, 63 % frequent the cinema. (La Cinematc-GRAPHIE FranCAISE, Paris, 27-VIII-1932).
Mr A. C. Cameron, Secretary for Education delivered an address at the annual meeting of the British Association, in the course of which he pointed out the great influence of the cinema from the intellectual and social point of view both on children and adults. He urged the necessity of having a truly national film production in England. (The Daily Telegraph, London, 2-IX-1932).
Politics.
Mr Walter Nebuhr has produced for the Peace Films Foundation of New York a pacifist film entitled " Must War be ? " The film illustrates certain particularly important world events and especially the armaments of the big powers. (The Film Daily, New York, 6-VIII-1932).
M. Georges Bonnancour has written a scenario on the life of Aristide Briand, apostle of peace. As soon as the film is ready, it will be shown at Geneva before the delegates of all the nations of the League. (The Daily Film Renter, London, 23-VIII1932).