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IMPRESSIONS AND REFLECTIONS
kidnapped the beautiful, innocent blonde secretary. There is no lack of submarines (they are usually Japanese, and only 'recently' Nazi) being hunted down by aeroplanes, ships, etc., etc.
Undoubtedly these serials are, from the point of view of the children, the highlights of the cinema clubs, but they are pernicious in their psychological effects, leaving the children at a high pitch of expectation for the next week's show, poisoning their daydreams and, by an utterly artificial unreality, influencing their play.
From time to time there are good geographical or travel pictures shown between the cartoon and the main film, but also Pathe shows. One I distinctly remember picturing the 'development' of girls' underwear, demonstrated by girls, of course. Here the children very clearly and loudly hissed. The local manager naturally, and I suppose successfully, reports such obvious mistakes to the central office, which is solely responsible for the selection of the film material, but in the meantime the pictures have been shown.
I have taken up the question of the utterly inadequate machinery of the central selection of the film material with those responsible for it. One person admitted to me, in the presence of my assistant, that he was by no means able to see all the films sent out or chosen for the local cinemas! Or I was reminded that the film material suitable for children was not enough. The latter argument is undoubtedly of great weight, but if there are not enough films suitable for children to go round, then why show objectionable pictures, objectionable from the point of view of the educationalist?
Moreover, the industry, or at least those who run children's cinemas, may say and have actually said: 'Listen, my dear fellow, we are here to provide entertainment and not education. In addition, we are making new children's films which will slowly replace those which you regard as objectionable.' To this I have answered, admittedly without the slightest success: It is impossible to provide entertainment divorced from moral and psychological norms. Even if you intend to give pure entertainment, the power of visualisation creates moral patterns. And at least as far as children are concerned, the State must supervise an industry which is obviously not able to see beyond its commercial horizon. Since the children's performances are being run as clubs, no outside adult person is permitted to attend without being carefully scrutinised. As neither the local management nor the central office seems to provide an effective selection of the film material, we leave several hundred thousand British children
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