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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
Durbin's films when she used to be a girl at college but in Christmas Holiday I didn't think and like her half as much.
The usual films of young girls and boys I enjoy very much but beside that I think a good murder is very thrilling but a bit impossible, still most films are impossible.
Cowboy films are usually stupid but all the same I still get a thrill when 'Buffalo Bill' fights single-handed against hordes of red-skins calling and whooping madly.
Although many people think that Walt Disney's films are babyish I still enjoy them as much a my younger brother and sister. I even think my father enjoys them better than an ordinary film. Bambi I thought was lovely. The little woodland creatures and the old Prince Stag looked so different yet all seemed to belong to the fairy like scene. 'Dumbo' the elephant who could fly with the big ears I thought was very sweet and when he cried and the tears welled up out of his eyes well — I don't know, but may be I like cartoons best after all.
A FURTHER COMMENTARY
CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
As a short supplement to the nineteen girls' essays, nine girls were interviewed in their homes; also, we received eleven more essays from girls in the Lower V — one year below the others. The average age is thirteen and a half in the latter group, and fourteen and a half in the former, although one of the girls interviewed was sixteen.
The tastes in films between the two groups are rather different. The essays on the whole, and particularly the opinions expressed, are more spontaneous among the younger group. Two of the girls have not much to say for most films — one says: 'Most of the films now-a-days are trash, except for a few English films.' Another: T detest films in general . . . (most) films bore me, and seem unreal, and glamourous in an unpleasant way.'
This girl only goes to see the longer Walt Disney films which she enjoys very much; two other girls admit in a rather shame-faced manner to preferring the Walt Disneys — shame-faced because of a vague idea that cartoons are 'babyish'. So one girl says: 'Although many people think that Walt Disney's films are babyish, I still enjoy them as much a my younger brother and sister. I even think
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