Sociology of film : studies and documents (1946)

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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA either torture, or the Guillotine, during the French Revolution. He, with a band of twenty friends formed themselves into a league and kept their identities a secret, even from their families. Personally I enjoyed both film and book equally well. The book gave the reader more detail, while the film brought the scenery and costumes more vividly to the watcher's eye. I think the choice of actors was exceptionally good as Lesley Howard played the role of the dreamy pleasure-loving baronet, who made himself a butterfly of society to hide his courage and sympathy for the illtreated French aristocrats. Merle Oberon played the part of his beautiful, elegant French wife who held him in contempt for his seemingly disinterested attitude towards her suffering fellow countrymen. I think I would have enjoyed this film better if it had been in technicolour. This would have shown the dresses and scenery up more vividly. I think this was a well acted, interesting and slightly humerous play and I think that it would be a great pleasure if the Islington Studios would produce one or two of the Orczy Pimpernel sequels. 6. S.C. When I saw Gone with the Wind, I came home with the impression that it was a marvellous film and I never expected to see another one that I like as much. So far, it is still my favourite film and I think I liked it because of its originality. Many famous stars acted in it and also as it was a long film you had time to catch hold of the spirit of it and you did not, as you do in some of the shorter films, come away with a feeling that you were not anything to the actors and feeling you were worlds apart from each other. It started with Scarlett O'Hara as a young girl preparing for a ball and planning how she could trap Ashley Wilkes, a man of whom she was very fond. At the ball she discovered that he was engaged to his cousin and in her disappointment she accepted Charles Hamilton who proposed the same evening. War was declared between the Southern and the Northern States of America and all the young men enlisted. Two months later Scarlett heard that her husband had been killed. She was left with a little boy whom she thought barred the way to her marrying again and so she rather resented his presence. She left her home and went to Atlanta where she helped in a hospital for the wounded. There she met Rhett Buttler, a man who 70