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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
Robin Hood was also very good, with Errol Flynn again as 'Robin', both films were coloured.
Three very good films this year were Pride and Prejudice with Greer Garson, and Laurence Olivier, also Jane Eyre, and 2,000 Women with Phyllis Calvert who is my favourite actress, and actor Errol Flynn.
I prefer coloured pictures, to ordinary ones, and I am hoping to see Western Approaches which is all about the navy, as I like naval pictures.
One half-holiday Mummy took me to the West End where she had previously booked two seats, for Tomorrow the World starring the two child actors 'Angela Glynn' and 'David O'Brion', it was very good about a German boy a Nazi who went to his Uncle in America, and he was still a Nazi. His cousin (Angela Glynn) he hit over the head as she discovers he was spying on her father. But it ended happily.
Naturally we did not confine our investigations to the Hampstead children. We also made extensive experiments in North Paddington. Here the essay method was only partially successful.
We had distributed about 800 guidance sheets in an independent cinema in North Paddington. This theatre has a child attendance of about 1,000 on Saturday in the early afternoon. The majority of the children are of proletarian origin. Though we had proposed to give prizes, and the Manager co-operated with us wholeheartedly, the result of our competition was disappointing.
We obtained not more than six returns.1
1 Our guidance sheet was framed thus:
COMPETITION
The Management of this Cinema wants all boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 15 to take part in a competition. You are requested to write an essay of any length on the following subject:
i The Films I Like and Dislike, and Why*
It is important to give your reasons for liking or disliking any films you have seen.
A First Prize of 10s. 6d. will be given to one boy and to one girl.
A Second Prize of 5s. od. will be given to one boy and to one girl.
A Third Prize of 2s. 6d. to one boy and to one girl. Please add on top of your essay:
Name, Address, Age, School, Occupation of father or mother, Nationality.
Return your essay to the Manager of this Cinema, who will get in touch with you if you have won a Prize.
The judging will be done by Film Research.
I 129 M.S.F.