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National Board of Review Magazine
VOL. XIX, No. 1
FEBRUARY 1944
25^ a copy, $2.00 a year
Editors — James Shelley Hamilton, Bettina Gunczy, Marie L. Hamilton, Henry Hart; Scudder Middleton, Managing Editor. On Active Service — Arthur Beach, Stephen P. Belcher, Jr.
Published 9 months in the year by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, Inc., Educational Building-, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N. Y. Copyright, i:i44.
Contents
Editorially Speaking 3
The New Movies
Madame Curie 4
Destination Tokyo 5
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 6
Other Recommended Pictures 8
Juvenile Delinquency and the Motion Picture
by Frederic M. Thrasher 9
The Ten Best for 1943 12
The Movies — Past and Present 16
Recommended Short Subjects 18
List of Selected Pictures: Jan.-Dec. 1943 19
COVER: Jennifer Jones in Twentieth Century-Fox's "The Song of Bcrnadette"
THE DEPARTMENTS
Committee on Exceptional Photoplays
This department reviews photoplays of unusual merit in the artistic development of the screen, with the object of bringing such pictures to the attention of discriminating' readers. Its ratings are: Exceptional, Honorable Mention and Critical Comment. The opinions of the Committee, composed of trained students and critics of the screen, are combined in an impartial review which aims to convey a comprehensive idea of the pictures, coveringboth their excellence and defects.
Chairman: Henry Hart Secretary: Scudder Middleton
COMMITTEE
James Agee Manny Farber Philip T. HartungHattie S. Heymann Mary B. Miller
Frances Taylor Patterson Muriel Rukeyser John B. Turner Eda Lou Walton Frank Wa.-d*
On Active Service
Robert Giroux
Recommended Pictures This department reviews pictures selected by the Review Committee of the National Board of Review as worthy of popular patronage in the theatres, with an indication of the audience group suitability for each picture. The choice of the pictures in
cluded is based upon principles of selection developed through long study of public preferences as to what constitutes good screen entertainment. The majority opinion of the Review Committee forms the basis for the reviews and audience recommendations of the pictures. The Review Committee consists of approximately 300 trained members representative of widely varied interests who volunteer their services.
Community Councils,
This department reports on matters of interest to those groups conducting community motion picture programs, initiated under its National Motion Picture Council, particularly on the activities of Motion Picture Councils and similar associations in their local work.
Junior Department
This department presents material of especial -value to 4-Star Clubs, which are the study or producing groups devoted to motion pictures in schools throughout the country. It also records the opinions expressed by the Board's Young Reviewers, a group of typical school children of New York, aged 8 to 14, who meet from time to time in projection rooms to preview new films.
Opinions expressed in signed articles are not necessarily those of the National Board of Review and do not invariably represent its editorial policy.