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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
19. S.L.
I like the films generally but sometimes after seeing a picture I come away feeling that I have derived no pleasure or enjoyment from it at all.
I do not like seeing cowboy films and American Gangster films because there is always such a lot of shouting that I can't really hear what is being said or done.
I like Detective stories best. Some grownups say to me, 'Oh! but a little girl like you shouldn't like such gruesome things'. But I do all the same and when anything exciting happens I always sit tensely and watch and listen eagerly.
Love Stories? Yes I do like them as long as they are not too sentimental. What spoils a lot of love stories is when the lovers get over dramatic in their words and actions. When this happens the picture loses a good deal of its charm.
At almost every picture that I go to Jazz is played. Most people like jazz but I can't seem to enjoy it. I think that a good deal of it is rather cheap and it is not always appreciated by everybody. I dislike it intensely when girls with elaborately painted red lips come onto the stage and sing in deep quivery voices; I just can't enjoy it.
I would not call myself a 'film fan', but I do appreciate a good film when I see one.
Three Films I Liked Very Much
20. H.B.
I saw these films a long time ago, but I think they are the ones I liked best.
The First two are historic films, and they are of one person, as a boy, and as a man. The person is Edison, who invented electricity. The one as a boy shows him making experiments, and frightening his school master, how he invented the morse code, and how a little girl friend of his was in an express train, and he knew there was a broken bridge ahead, so he blew morse very loudly, on the whistle of a following train, and so saved the whole of the express train. It had its funny parts, and the parts which showed the costumes on a horse, and the milkman with a jug, and the dresses of his sister and mother. His father was very particular as to how he shouldn't put his hands in his pockets!
The other film of him as a man, shows all the hardship and danger he went through, and how poor he was, and how he tried hundreds of different threads for his electric light. You see him
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