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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
Having realised this intrinsic difficulty in our child experiments, we chose to use a lengthy questionnaire, used in its original form by Professor Blumer in a slightly changed form, adapted to British children (this questionnaire will be found in Blumer's Movies and Conduct, pp. 208 sqq.).1 The questionnaires were filled in during school lessons and show a high degree of accuracy. Only one class (42 boys and girls) completed the questionnaires.
Yet, before I discuss some of the more relevant results of these questionnaires, I print the following two essays from two of the children of the same class whom I had taken with me to see the film Henry V.
Hazel writes: Henry V is a very interesting film. I think that whoever trained the horses must have been a very clever person or persons whichever the case may be. I think the part I liked most was the battle. At first I could not tell the difference between the two sides but gradually I learnt by the different kinds of flags. The film was one of Shakespeares plays. It was all about an English king who had been insulted by a French king. The English king then said he would declare war on France if the French king did not give up his crown to Henry the English king. He wouldn't. Henry then declared war on France. At first the French were winning but in the latter part of the fight the English were winning. They won. Henry then married the daughter of the king of France.
Peter writes: Henry V is very good and and interesting ... I think the actors must be very good ones and must have been a great task to the houres and men while they were being trained to keep walking and galloping. I think the battle was the hardest scene to act and I like it best of all and the courtship of the king of England with Katherine second best the humorous scene when kink Henry V was reading pieces of paper on which were written all sorts things all about France and her rights I liked third best and now I will write about the battle. The English archers got out their sharp knives and banged in a trunk of a young oak sharpened them up with their sharp knives and the sharpened oak trunks were used to trap the French horses so that knights on the horses backs would fall to the ground and because of their heavy armour they would die. They were placed like this the artchers were behind the knights. The English Yoman fiered a swarm of arrows but the French
menon of identification or participation mystique will make the memory-phenomena undoubtedly more complex.
1 We reprint ours as Appendix V.
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